Comments on: Switching from Launchy to Gnome-Do

By: Eirik

Eirik — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:32:16 +0000

First, if you can’t see the gnome-do icon in your task bar, it isn’t running. If it was installed properly, you’ll find it in /Accessories/Gnome-Do . Otherwise, you can always run it from the terminal by typing “gnome-do”.

Now right click on the icon, choose “Preferences” and click the “Keyboard” tab. Here, you can choose your own command to summon the Gnome-Do window – my choice is Ctrl-Space.

By: Eirik

Eirik — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:56:17 +0000

I’m used to OSX with quicksilver and/or spotlight, and gnome-do seems to do about the same as these.
But: how do I launch gnome-do in the first place??
In OSX I would tap cmd-space to open quicksilver/spotlight and then type mye command, but I can’t seem to find an equivalent to open gnome-do. What did I miss when?

By: Eirik

Eirik — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:29:07 +0000

Alex: Thanks for the tip. I’ve been using “Reveal”, as it was the default setting, and “Open” was hidden when I tabbed to options. I used the standard version in Ubuntu Hardy, which was 0.4.0.1. Now I’ve upgraded, and “Open” is default. Problem solved – brilliant!

By: Alex Launi

Alex Launi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:21:17 +0000

With your “Rather than opening /home/eirik/Documents, say, Gnome-Do opens /home/eirik instead” are you using reveal or open? reveal opens the directory above whatever the item is, open opens the directory. Also make sure you’re suing the latest version in our ppa (0.6). Sounds like you’re using a really old version.

By: Mads

Mads — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:47:43 +0000

And for those of us using KDE ( KDE > Gnome ), Katapult is a great program, which does mostly the same as Launchy/Gnome Do.

By: Pål Orby

Pål Orby — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:35:32 +0000

Have you seen this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo/

I didn’t know half of it beeing an active gnome-do user for a year