Debian Squeeze/Sid Unstable Compiz fix Gnome Run
Application Alt+F2 problem
I've happily installed and use
compiz-gnome. In order to succesfully run compiz I was required to
execute it via the command
1. # compiz --replace &
Compiz broke the default behaviour of some of my assigned keys like
for example the nice handy Alt+F2 Run Application dialog box. That
made me irritated and therefore I wanted to have the handy feature
working as before. The suggested solution to the situation was
proposedby user kiprit on
the following
post in ubuntuforums . I will quote here what the valueable
post reads:
Start Compiz Config Settings Manager Go to General Options, under
Commands tab under the commands fold, command line 0, type:
gnome-run go to "key bindings" fold, Run command 0, assign
Alt+F2
It seems gnome for some reasons does not include application that
invokes the Gnome Application Run menu. To fix that somebody out
there has written a small program in C language that refers to the
Run Application dialog.
Download the program
gnome-run.c here . To
properly compile the program use:
2. gcc -o gnome-run gnome-run.c -L/usr/lib/X11 -lX11
If you're lucky gnome-run should be now poping up the Run
Application dialog.
Afterwards please follow the instructions in above's forum post . I
wasn't completely happy with the solution because gnome-run doesn't
execute the Run Application dialog front focused. I've googled for
other swift way to execute commands through a command and I came
upon
gmrun .
Happily for me gmrun was already included in a packaged deb binary
so all I had to do is install it via apt-get install gmrun and set
it for execution on alt+f2 key press again as explained
above.