Command line applet

Hey,

This is one for those who are used to the commandline but want to forget about it, for example, to get rid of the geekish linux user stigma ;). Especially if you only use the terminal to run programs/scripts you have no starter for on your desktop/panel or in your menus. To add this applet to your panel, like for all panel applets, right-click a panel and choose "Add to panel...":

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Then you get this well-known "Add to panel" window:

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Search through list till you find the "Command line" (or whatever it is in your language ;)) applet. To quickly find it, you can just click some entry and begin typing the name of it. Btw: you can do this in most 'lists' in gnome! When you found the applet you need (the command line one for this example ;)) you can double click it to add it on the place where you right-clicked, or just drag it to any place on the panel where you like it :). This is how it looks:


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When you type and just hit return, the command gets run as it were run on a terminal. If you click the dot, you can choose a file on your filesystem to execute, the down-arrow shows you a history of your last-used commands.
But, we're not done yet! This applet is a lot more powerfull then just to execute some commands. Let's open the preferences dialog (by right-clicking the applet and choosing "preferences - obvious, right ? ;)):


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As you see, you can enable history-based auto-completition, which is very cool as it makes you not have to retype the whole thing you run ... this seems stupid for commands you run regulary as it would be a lot easier to just provide a starter for them, but ...
On the second tab of the preferences-screen you can set "macros". I cannot explain this very well in English, but it just means you can do a lot more then just running normal commands with this nifty applet. There where some macros set by default, for example, one that opens your browser with a google search if you type "google: ". Another cool one just makes your browser open a url you type (paste ;)) in the applet. It's easy to add new macros. For example, to search in the archives of this blog, add a macro with the pattern "^gt: *(.*)$" and command "gnome-open http://www.google.com/custom?domains=&q=\1&domains=gnometux.blogspot.com
&sitesearch=gnometux.blogspot.com&client=pub-4058752637362479&forid=1
&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%235588AA%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV
%3A%23EEEEEE%3BVLC%3A996699%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BL
BGC%3AFFFFFF%3BALC%3ACC6600%3BLC%3ACC6600%3BT%3A333333%3BGF
NT%3A5588AA%3BGIMP%3A5588AA%3BLH%3A100%3BLW%3A800%3BL%3Ahttp
%3A%2F%2Fstudent.vub.ac.be%2F%257Ekmdemeye%2Fblog%2Flogo.jpg%3BS%3
Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fgnometux.blogspot.com%3BFORID%3A1%3B&hl=en" (all this on one line and both without the quote-marks). Then, you can just type "gt: gnome" to search for the word 'gnome' in my archives :).

Cyah !