Debian Squeeze/Sid Unstable Compiz fix Gnome Run Application Alt+F2 problem

Thursday, 3rd September 2009

I’ve happily installed and use compiz-gnome. In order to succesfully run compiz I was required to execute itvia 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 ManagerGo to General Options, under Commands tabunder the commands fold, command line 0, type: gnome-rungo 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 inabove’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.END—–

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2 Responses to “Debian Squeeze/Sid Unstable Compiz fix Gnome Run Application Alt+F2 problem”

  1. jmcnaught says:
    IceWeasel 4.0.1 IceWeasel 4.0.1 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20110430 Firefox/4.0.1 Iceweasel/4.0.1

    Hello,

    This post helped me figure out how to fix this same problem, and it was a little easier so I thought I’d share it.

    I also went into the CompizConfig Settings Manager, and right beside the “General Options” there was a “Gnome Compatibility” plugin that was disabled. Enable that plugin by adding a check-mark beside it and you will get Alt-F2 and a few other things working again.

    You may or may not need the compiz-gnome package (it was already installed for me).

    jmcnaught

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