Comment 34 for bug 580295
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| Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote Re: Alt-F2 not working | #34 |
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Currently I use Ctrl-Alt-t as "Alt-F2" (thanks to Mark for the tip, I was pulling my hair out before). Doing Ctrl-Alt-t lots also means you end up with a lot of Terminals left around, and those Terminals are hard to reuse with broken Alt-Tab (bug #175874) and then all looking the same in the switcher.
Personally, I can't recall having used the "Run in Terminal" option in perhaps more than once (and then only as an experiment to see what it did) so I don't know that we need to provide it; there have to be better ways based on heuristics (program writing to stdout, stderr, or blocking on stdin).
However, I'd be tempted to provide an Alt-F2 with "Run in Terminal" *in the short term* to improve the "familiarity" that a pre-existing user feels when confronted with the new Unity interface, going some way to helping to put them back in their comfort zone.