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Just my opinion but krunner is far from a second class citizen:
It has plenty of great features (some can be found in the official page)
It integrates well with other software and KDE itself (switch desktops, firefox bookmarks, firefox tabs, marble, go to specific window, run web searches, dolphin...)
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I believe that HUD feature is not part of krunner, not by laziness but by design: the devs chose not to include it to krunner so that krunner is not bloated.
(BTW
Alfred is Mac only and not open source
Unity is old and not supported by Canonical anymore and apart from HUD, it lacks a lot of features that krunner had for years)
I copy-pasted the solver one from https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner, and KRunner gave me the same answer, but I didn't verify myself.
P.S.: Those are not inserted screenshots, they are recreated and typed ;)
This is how it looks like. I don't know if terminal commands plugin is enabled by default, but it doesn't matter because you can also type it in Konsole (the same line I wrote earlier)
I don't have mpv installed, but e.g. man:/man does not lead to anything better.
> I don't know if there is a plugin needed to run this.
My understanding is that the left column documents the 'source' of the suggestions. E.g. inputting <code>4 + 3</code> makes a Calculator suggestion pop up. What do you get on your end?
After digging around I've found that man:<something> is a non-standard URI to local man pages (which Konqueror does support, as mentioned by someone else). So I expect that your suggestion is a 'Locations' one. At least that's what I get if I try e.g. file:/<something> or http://<something>, or even info:<something>. This last one is also a non-standard URI but this time for info documentation. Sadly it almost but doesn’t quite work on my end, it does point my browser to something but I end up on an error page :( I'll have to figure out what my system is missing or doing wrong.
The Krunner page helpfully suggests #man as an even shorter entry! (Which doesn’t work any better than man: on my end, but oh well.)
Does it or doesn't it? u/domacs just commented that it used to be included in Krunner, and I've also heard that it's under development, which seems like the opposite problem. Nothing in the current documentation says anything about searching the currently-focused application's menubar menus for commands.
KRunner revolutionized my workflow, when I am forced to use Windows at work I find myself constantly going alt-space and cursing when I realise it won't work.
I am going to go out of the way you'd expect but still give a better alternative. Install KDE and use its KRunner (Alt+Space).
Not only you can search apps, files and open them in a breeze, execute commands but also a whole lot more.
It will remember your last executed entries and allow you to open recently used apps and files much faster (you can disable the feature if you don't like).
After using KRunner, I have always felt all other DEs cumbersome to use quickly with a keyboard. And it is only getting better with every release. KRunner is half the reason I am on KDE.
Though you have to select the search engine you want to use...it's not just typing "<searchterm>" but "gg:<searchterm" for google or "wp:<searchterm>" for wikipedia for example.
me : "nice I can now remove launchy since I have sane results that are almost as good as Krunner"
Ofc I first set the Start menu to show the programs instead of the metro applications.
Does the slider in your battery/brightness system tray entry work properly? “screen brightness 90” should change your screen brightness to 90% as it is described at https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner/en#Manage_your_computer
If the slider isn’t working right either, then maybe you could search online for problems on Linux with your monitor make/model.
KDE also, and honestly way better than MacOS.
Perhaps we should package some open source apps as propietary and sell them to Windows newcomers to make them at ease
1 ] try using krunner https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner
2 ] once you're in, try disabling in System Preferences » Window Behavior » Advanced » Allow KDE applications to remember their window positions , if it doesn't fix the issue you can enable it again
> For example, swipe and zoom gestures are gone in my web browser, pinch to zoom gestures are gone in my word processor, windowsn(super) key no longer allows me to do an instant web search.
The thing about the windows key is a case of making a keyboard shortcut to open "firefox www.google.com" or whatever. That would be a way to do it. If you're running KDE Plasma, you just open settings, go to global shortcuts, and change the "open krunner" shortcut from alt+space to the windows key. Then, you just type gg: and then whatever you want to search for. In other words "gg:linux" will open a browser tab and search google for "linux". There are a LOT of things krunner can do. Here is a list
As far as gesture control, that is one place a lot of opensource apps are lacking. That's not really a linux problem, but the individual apps. You can install and use gesture control for the desktop itself. But, since most linux users are used to keyboard shortcuts and don't like moving their fingers off the keyboard (decreases productivity), then gestures aren't a high priority for most applications.
So yes, I will agree with them that it's a different paradigm, but I also accept that it's the way you want to use your computer. Nothing is wrong with your way of thinking. That's the thing about choice...it's not choice if you have to choose the things I do. So, Windows and your workflow in Windows might be the best choice for you. That's fine.
> I recommend this btw:
> killall plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell > /dev/null 2>&1 &
I use KRunner for the shorter form,
killall plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell
Is there any benefit from the longer form when KRunner is used?
Hi, for me the killer feature of KDE is KRunner. Just click on your desktop (or press Alt+Space) and start typing for example app name or folder name. Krunner will find what you are looking. There are also additional features like calculator, units converter or some terminal commands - just read the KDE Userbase page with description and examples: https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner
The other big feature of KDE is flexibility - you can adjust desktop appearance and behavior in many many ways. You can create Windows-like, MacOS-like, GNOME-like desktop. Unfortunately with so many options there comes also complexity. It is not so easy to tweak it fore more specific changes and it goes with lot of trials and errors.
You can see some inspirations on: https://www.deviantart.com/kde-users/gallery/37232101/Desktop-Screenshots
Back in the day, I gathered up all the features I could find and wrote them up on this page on userbase. You could start with that page and perhaps update it for the 5.x times?
No, Kubuntu never used an Amazon search in its desktop search.
Again, just to be clear, it's not that the OS "tracks" you, it's that it was vulnerable to tracking from third parties, specifically companies who had search providers included. Especially when online features were first added to the desktop search, a lot of users didn't even realize that their search phrases were being sent anywhere, let alone being sent to Amazon. And the data was meant to be anonymized within Canonical's (Ubuntu's company's) servers, but of course, those same users didn't even know the strings were going to Canonical, and the anonymization was also basically ineffective, because it still associated search return asset images with an IP address at Amazon's end.
Functionally, these search providers are like the sources the Start screen pulls from for its search, including the toggleable web search returns. Amazon got the attention around this because of the advertising element, but these search strings were being sent to Wikipedia and Google and so on, too. This wasn't an accepted norm even on Windows at the time, since Win8 had only hit a month before the feature was introduced.
Other Ubuntu flavors use similar search providers, but the online ones are generally opt-in, such as including results for files in Google Drive or Docs, etc. after you connect your account. (I'm specifically thinking of the GNOME desktop here, which is incidentally set to replace Unity as the default environment in either the next release or a year from now.)
KDE's (Kubuntu's desktop environment's) closest equivalent would be some of the functionality in KRunner, which is like ... Run Dialog crossed with parts of Cortana, sort of? I don't see that it actually includes online search sources at all, though. (I use GNOME myself and, much to my chagrin to say this, have less familiarity with KDE than I do with Win10.)
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