The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 1:15 UTC (Wed) by ewen (subscriber, #4772)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by aigarius
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

You may want to consider setting up a keybinding (ctrl-alt-SOMETHING is what I normally use) that launches your common applications (ie, one binding per application). I've done this for years (probably 15+) over a bunch of different environments (OS/2, fvwm, Gnome, OS X, etc), and it's usually one of the first things I do when setting up a new desktop.

I only fight through the menus (or other launchers) for things I only need to run infrequently (either because I hardly ever use them, or because they stay always running started soon after first boot -- and then the system is suspended/resumed through until it needs a kernel update, usually many weeks if not months).

Ewen

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 15:11 UTC (Wed) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701) [Link] (2 responses)

There's no need to do that. Just hit the Logo key, type the first few letters of an application name and press enter. I do this in about 800ms, frequently, for both Terminal and Calculator. If the app is already running, it's brought to the foreground; if it isn't, it's launched.

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 16:42 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

I tried GNOME Shell back in November (was a KDE user, have since migrated to using XMonad). Is there any way to unbind the Logo key so it can be used in global shortcuts without doing anything when a shortcut isn't completed?

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 17:01 UTC (Wed) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701) [Link]

gconf-editor > apps > mutter > general > overlay_key

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 18, 2011 16:09 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

You may want to consider setting up a keybinding (ctrl-alt-SOMETHING is what I normally use) that launches your common applications (ie, one binding per application).

I use the "Win" key for this, having once found the KDE 3.x configuration screen which lets you set this up. Why the "Win" key? Well, I have to use that key for something.

And like you, I rarely need to go into the menus any more, although I also place my favourite applications in the icon/launcher bar just in case I'm using the mouse. It occurs to me that a "bookmarks" paradigm for applications would populate both methods upon indicating that an application is "bookmarked" or needs a shortcut, or whatever.