The starter from LXDE can only run GUI tools, not CLI tools because it doesn't offer the ability to run an application in a terminal. It's another thing with the starters from Gnome, KDE or XFCE4.
Greetings Werner
.
I would expect to be able to put an executable command like
mc, ifconfig, vrms, or even less /var/log/syslog into the
little applet that appears either with Alt-F2 or the LXDE
menu choice 'Run'. But neither of these work for me.
Can anyone help me with this?
The starter from LXDE can only run GUI tools, not CLI tools because it doesn't offer the ability to run an application in a terminal. It's another thing with the starters from Gnome, KDE or XFCE4.
Greetings Werner
Hi, Werner
I don't see how Alt-F2 or the 'Run' choice are even useful in LXDE.
With 'Run' from LXDE you can only start GUI-tools (which are in the users path)!
With 'Run' from Gnome you can start GUI-tools and CLI-tools.
Greetings Werner * http://www.wp-schulz.de/knoppix/summary.html
Own Rescue-CD (Knoppix V6.7.1 remaster)
I understand that, but the GUI tools are already menu choices.
Moreover, the LXDE MENUs allow cli entries as well as gui entries.
And, confusingly, the Run/Alt-F2 gui OFFERS a lot of cli choices that don't work,
and even one, alsamixer, that causes a cpu problem;
at least it does on my dual-cpu laptop.
The forum has identified (and corrected) several small flaws in 6.7.1 this year.
I think Run/Alt-F2 may be another area worth a critique.
Last edited by utu; 11-11-2011 at 06:27 PM.
It is not a flaw from Knoppix!
LXDE
don't offer this feature to start CLI tools in a terminal. Please ask in the LXDE forum why not.Code:lxpanelctl run
Hi again, Werner
I greatly respect and appreciate your comments.
I'm not suggesting that irregularities in Run/Alt-F2 are KK's fault,
except, possibly, in the choice of LXDE as the desktop.
I was hoping when I started this thread to discover a better way of
handling several LXDE Run/Alt-F2 idiosyncracies which I've identified.
Just tolerating these imperfections is not what I had in mind.
I get the feeling that change comes very slowly in LXDE, at least in this
Debian adaptation. I would wonder if Knoppix might do as well or better
with XFCE, which seems to me to be a more actively developed product.
Staying with LXDE, I am inclined to edit my LXDE menu to delete the
Run alternative, and to add a new separate submenu of my own
populated with a dozen or so of my favorite cli choices.
Being lazy as I am, I was hoping there might be an easier way.
Hi, utu!
If you must run a program in a terminal like mc you can press Alt-F2 and issueGreetingsCode:lxterminal -e mc
Why this detour over "Alt F2"? I start a terminal immediatly with the panel-button.
The terminal closes automatically when the program ends.
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