Running a program from the command line.

[Brian Norman Wootton]

Mark Greenwood wrote:

> > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 21:58:17 Donn wrote:
>   
>> >> On Tuesday, 19 May 2009 22:47:52 Michael wrote:
>>     
>>> >> > In KDE3, you could hit the giant K in task bar and get an option to run
>>> >> > a command.  How do you do this in KDE4?
>>>       
>> >> Alt + F2
>> >> Or open konsole.
>>     
> > 
> > Or right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose 'Run Command'
> > 
> > mark
>   
>> >> 
>> >> \d
>>     

or hit the giant K and enter the command name (or part of it) in the search 
box... (obviously this only works for actual GUI apps - they may need to be 
in the menus, too: I haven't tried to run something that doesn't have a menu 
entry)
-- derek *Has to be a menu item, typing into the giant K don't work 
except to search the web for whatever you type in, if it isn't in the 
menu. brian *