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something fun in Feisty Fawn

It is sometimes that I use Ubuntu in home as primary OS, a shortcut that I am used to use is ALT+Space to minimize, maximize or restore a window. But in Ubuntu or maybe in Gnome, It is my first time that i use Gnome as primary desktop, this key combination act differently.

When I pressed ALT+Space as i used to do it and it showd a semi transparent window which let me select one of application links that are present in Gnome/Ubuntu menu a link to some web site, a folder in my home directory or something else which i have not descovered yet.

The opened window allows you shows all menu items that begins with your typed character and let you select your target shortcut

Here is an screenshot of this window. a wonderful thingy, by the way maybe it is not Gnome built in feature and one of additional packages that i installed add it to Gnome.

Comments

• And I'll be an annoying Mac user right now by just saying we've had that for a loooong time with the fantastic Quicksilver. That kind of tool is really great and I'm glad to see it's available on Ubuntu.

  Posted by: gfx on June 01, 2007 at 12:23 PM

• Well, Mac users are very happy with their choice.
  I never saw a Mac user to complain about the OS itself.

  Posted by: kalali on June 01, 2007 at 01:44 PM

• This is not specific to GNOME. Kubuntu (KDE) users can use Katapult, which looks like the same thing. In fact, it looks so similar, I wonder if it is Katapult that you're using.

  Posted by: rhasselbaum on June 02, 2007 at 06:46 AM

• You are totally correct, now i can say that this is Katapult. By the way it is a good application.

  Posted by: kalali on June 02, 2007 at 10:20 AM

• I don't believe it's available in a default ubuntu install: it's part of Kubuntu, though. You must have installed it explicitly. In gnome (a normal ubuntu install) what I use is the deskbar applet, which has less visual bling, but seem to be more functional (also integrating searches, and so on).

  Posted by: baroncelli on June 04, 2007 at 12:41 AM

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