sjaglin Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 (edited) Hi, For those who prefer a quick keyboard shortcut to grabbing the mouse, I now use katapult, a nice little tool who sits gently in the system tray and which can call any program you like just by typing alt+space, I find it very useful. http://katapult.kde.org/ and to get the rpm go to : http://www.mandrivauser.de/smarturpmi/ and add the mud-free rpms to your system, Stef [moved from Software by spinynorman] Edited October 22, 2007 by sjaglin@yahoo.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 You should be able to use alt-F2 with regular KDE panel anyway. There should be an official Katapult package in Cooker quite soon, and probably a backport for 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted October 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Hi, The alt-f2 is not "intuitive", with katapult if you type fi he will already have selected "firefox" and "filezilla" for example. Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 True, but the Alt-F2 thing remembers what you've run before, so next time you go in, the already-run programs will be highlighted too. Doesn't help much for the first time in of course, I agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted October 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 True, but the Alt-F2 thing remembers what you've run before, so next time you go in, the already-run programs will be highlighted too.Doesn't help much for the first time in of course, I agree. Indeed, sorry to insist, but with Katapult you can also -acces any of your web favourites in the same quick "intelligent" way - you can do calculations (without opening kalculator) apparently even scientific ones -finally you can open a song by its title if it's in your amarok playlist. I think that's useful for people like me who are not used to laptop's integrated mouse pad, otherwise for desktop use, I m not sure... Stef ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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