fbrun - display run dialog window
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Description
fbrun(1) is basically equivalent to the “Run...” dialog in other desktop environments. This means that it
is an easy way to start a program that isn’t contained in the menu (or needs a special set of parameters
for this particular invocation).
Pressing “Enter” will close the window and execute the command in your present $SHELL. Pressing “Esc”
will close the window and does not execute anything.
Another way fbrun can be useful is to be called from the menu with a preloaded command line that you can
edit and then execute. An example might be sshing to a very long host name with lots of options of which
one changes all the time. In this case, you could add an entry for fbrun to your menu that contains all
the options and the host name. When you use said entry, you could edit the line as necessary and execute
it.
Example
fbrun -fg black -bg white -text xterm -title "run xterm"
Name
fbrun - display run dialog window
Options
-titletitle
Set title
-texttext
Text input
-wwidth
Window width in pixels
-hheight
Window height in pixels
-displaydisplay
Display name, defaults to $DISPLAY-posxy
Window position in pixels
-nearmouse
Position the window under the mouse cursor
-fgcolor
Foreground text color. The default is black-bgcolor
Background color. The default is white-fontname
Text font name
-hffilename
History file to load. The default is ~/.fluxbox/fbrun_history.
-help
Show this help
See Also
fluxbox(1)
Synopsis
fbrun [options]
