On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:34:28PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:52:00 -0700
> "Steve C. Lamb" <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:
> > XFCE calls it the "Mini Command Line". KDE calls it something else which
> > I am most likely misremembering as "Launch Bar". It is not the panel at the
> Alt-F2, or "run command". Actually, I am not certain that it has
> another term.
Nope, that's not it. That's something else. This is a text entry box
embedded in the panel.
> In the "old" days, one would put the X preferences of applications
> inside a custom .xinitrc file, so that every time you typed "rxvt &"
> the session would apply the preferred options. Doing that, or
> using a shell wrapper or alias would alleviate that issue.
True, which is effectively what the icons are. They just don't need to
start a terminal to access the alias or wrapper first. ;)
> A long time ago, I learned to rely on a neat feature of
> bash: ctrl-R, "backwards interactive search". I just got used to
> hitting ctrl-R and typing the first letter or two of the command I
> wanted.
zsh has something similar. First 2-3 letteres then Esc-P to go through
all matching commands. :D
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