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Make Alt-F2 dialog capable to run commands
Alt-F2 dialog can search for applications, but if you try to run a command, it opens a random application
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Not exactly, my error, it's open the first application starting with the first letter of the comand (i.e. sudo opens SuperTuxKart)
Alright, well the old-old rundialog could do this so I see no reason why not
I agree that Alt +F2 should be an option, but personally I'd rather have Budgie Menu extended to have the option to run the input as a command.
The option would appear as a "Run command %s" option and if you type something like "tmux" it would have the following information instead of just "Sorry, no items found."
(Item) Run command "tmux" (Horizontal Line Break) (String) No applications found.
The run command would open a terminal and proceed to execute the command.
It would also be nice if one could use the arrow keys to navigate through the proposed applications in the Alt+F2 dialog. Right now we have to change to the mouse.
I'm not Solus OS user and even not Budgie Desktop user. I have custom session because of some features lacking in other WMs I'm using Compiz on Ubuntu 16.10. But I use this run dialog and it is really awesome except it doesn't support execution of arbitrary commands.
As for @JoshStrobl comment - it is reasonable to implement it in both places.
@ikeydoherty Thanks, at least it's still somewhat considered. It's one of the very few things I missed when made the switch, quite handy when using your mouse on a rare occasion :)
I've personally switched to Cerebro, you can try it as well. It can also run commands among other things.
Ceebro is JS-written software, so, I will do not use it. (If they rewrite it to GTK C, i will consider usage). For now, I will use runner, written by myself. It is C-Based, and minics budgie layout.
I would rather stay as much as possible on a vanilla Budgie and accept things as they are. I prefer to install applets etc only for the features that make no sense to ask @ikeydoherty to implement, like the haste applet, screenshot applet and others.
So, install my GlobalMenu and StatusNotifier applets:) Afaik, Ikey will not implelemt it:)
Please don't speak on my behalf @rilian-la-te - I didn't say I wouldn't implement it, and the issue is still open.
Hello! I'm using Manjaro Budgie 21.0.4 (latest as of this comment date). Would love to have the ability to run shell commands and do quick calculations in search bar.
I see the last comment is around 4 years ago, but the issue is still open. Dare I hope that the feature may still be implemented in future?
PS: I'm new to budgie. Loving the experience. Spreading word to all my friends. Thanks for all the hard work!
I'm trying Budgie on Debian. This environment is really nice, stable (contrary to kde 4 I tried briefly last year) and well designed.
However, having to launch a terminal every time I launch a command is a pain. I have applications (notably Pycharm) installed without using package manager, and when I try to launch them using alt+F2, it launches K3b instead (Why K3b ? I don't know.)
I thought it was some kind of severe regression which would be quickly fixed, since I used alt+F2 to launch commands for 20 years on so many different environments (Gnome 2, Kde3, Unity, Mate, Cinnamon, Gnome3, Kde 4...)
However, when trying to report this, I discover this bug is present since 2015 without being fixed, so I'm a bit surprised...
I have applications (notably Pycharm) installed without using package manager
Use "Tools > Create Desktop Entry..." and you can launch it like any other app without support for commands.
I have discovered it in the while, but thanks for your advice !
So, for manually installed applications, creating a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications seems to be enough to be able to launch them, good to know.
Yet it was surprising this morning to write pycharm and to see K3b being launched. ;)