Re: Looking for alias-like behavior that works with Alt-F2

2013-03-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:09:18AM -0700, Aubrey Raech wrote: > I am running Debian Wheezy with GNOME 3.4. I use Alt-F2 a lot to run > some programs, things like gnome-terminal and gnome-dictionary. Those > are annoying to type out in full, so currently I have created symbolic > links from /usr/loc

Re: Looking for alias-like behavior that works with Alt-F2

2013-03-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Aubrey Raech wrote: > do it, and is amost certainly the least elegant or correct way to I think shell scripts would be more elegant than symlinks. #!/bin/sh exec gnome-terminal "$@" > solve this problem. I shouldn't need root privileges to make shortcut > names like this! You don't need to

Looking for alias-like behavior that works with Alt-F2

2013-03-11 Thread Aubrey Raech
I am running Debian Wheezy with GNOME 3.4. I use Alt-F2 a lot to run some programs, things like gnome-terminal and gnome-dictionary. Those are annoying to type out in full, so currently I have created symbolic links from /usr/local/bin/gt to /usr/bin/gnome-terminal, and /usr/local/bin/gdic to /usr/