No "run" menu item?

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 22:35:45 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 00:31 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
> No. This would be used to open programs that are not in the menu without 
> having a terminal window open.
> 
> Example: metacity or compiz crashes
> Solution: run it again from a "run" menu item
> Bad solution: run it from terminal - you have to keep it open because 
> when you close it you'll close metacity/compiz/whatever you've run in it

nohup compiz --replace &
Then close the window.  Compiz keeps going.  Works dandy.
-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
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