On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, James Jenner <james.g.jen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 27 September 2011 02:19, Jo-Erlend Schinstad > <joerlend.schins...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have not proposed anything like that. That was someone else, and I >> completely disagree with it. I don't want commands in the dash at all. They >> do not belong there. I like it just the way it is, but having an output >> section in the Alt+F2 screen would not be too bad. I don't think it's >> important. >> > > The examples that I've seen given here for using the Alt-F2 would require an > output section. For example, how do you know the results of a ping or how do > you terminate it once you're happy with it? How do you know the PID of the > process to kill without first searching for it (someone gave killing a > process as an example) and how do you know if the kill command was > successful (presuming non-gui process here)? If you have a window that is > dead then you need to search for the PID first before killing, this would > necessitate a terminal (unless you have a gdesklet or similar app that shows > you the top processes, then I could see the use of Alt-F2). > > I tried the Alt-F2 and disliked it mainly because I have no way of knowing > if it worked and I have no way of stopping it if it's a process like ping. > One area I can see it being useful would be to restart a service or > stop/start a service. But when I'm doing that I'm generally doing a number > of related activities that would necessitate the use of a terminal (e.g. > reconfiguration of a service and need to restart). > > Perhaps an option next to the command line in Alt-F2 that states, run in > terminal. Thus if selected then a terminal window could open and the command > is executed in the terminal. Just a thought, but I think that I would find > useful. > > I'm also curious if anyone out there actively uses Alt-F2 and if so, what > type of commands are we talking?
I use it regularly to kill or restart processes using the killall command, which allows you to specifiy a name rather than a PID. I also use it to spawn firefox with different -P profile options for testing add-ons. Neither of the cases I've mentioned are common, but they do exist. Cheers, Evan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp