Currently I use Ctrl-Alt-t as "Alt-F2" (thanks to Mark for the tip, I was pulling my hair out before). Doing Ctrl-Alt-t lots also means you end up with a lot of Terminals left around, and those Terminals are hard to reuse with broken Alt-Tab (bug #175874) and then all looking the same in the switcher.
Personally, I can't recall having used the "Run in Terminal" option in perhaps more than once (and then only as an experiment to see what it did) so I don't know that we need to provide it; there have to be better ways based on heuristics (program writing to stdout, stderr, or blocking on stdin). However, I'd be tempted to provide an Alt-F2 with "Run in Terminal" *in the short term* to improve the "familiarity" that a pre-existing user feels when confronted with the new Unity interface, going some way to helping to put them back in their comfort zone. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580295 Title: Alt-F2 not working -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
