BlueRun - A GTK based launcher

About

Why?

Learning GTK

Needed a small launcher

What?

BlueRun is a small launcher application written in C using GTK. The launcher
features default action, history with auto completion, fork/execvp when
executing applications. The goal is to keep the launcher as small as
possible (~10k).

Install

Unpack the tar.gz file:
$ gunzip -c bluerun-<version>.tar.gz | tar -xv
Change directory:
$ cd bluerun-<version>
Compile:
$ make
Copy the bluerun binary to a directory in your path:
$ cp bluerun /usr/bin
Copy the bluerunrc.template to you home directory and name it .bluerunrc:
$ cp bluerunrc.template ~/.bluerunrc

Usage

BlueRun should be used with a window manager that supports running applications with a keyboard shortcut or similar.

The launcher executes the command when 'enter' is pressed and aborts on 'escape'.

BlueRun starts with a default action, xterm. This can be changed in the configuration file.

BlueRun keeps a history of your most recent commands used for auto completion. The history is stored in a file named '.bluerun_history' in your home directory and is automatically created. The launcher will not store duplicates.

The default history size is 50 entries and can be changed in the configuration file.

Download

The source: bluerun-0.5.7.tar.gz

Mail

squeeze <at> users.sourceforge.net