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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Should these bugs be fixed?
From:       Martin Konold <konold () fiwi02 ! wiwi ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1997-06-04 20:02:17
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Tom Shannon wrote:

> Martin Konold wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Aaron Granick wrote:
> > 
> > > How could I have used KDE for so long and not know what minicli is?
> > > Where is this feature? How does one invoke it? What is it exactly?
> > 
> > Press Alt-F2 on the desktop!
> > 
> 
> I'm embarrassed to say that I stumbled across this by accident one day. 
> I reported it as a bug.  Pressing Alt-F2 causes a dialog to come up
> which prompts for a command.  I typed in "emacs" and everything froze. 
> Perhaps someone could explain exactly what "minicli" is and what it's
> supposed to do.

It is supposed to start the application you typed in.
So in your case it was supposed to start emacs. Compare it to the run
dialog of windows or  to kacli.

Yours,
-- martin
P.S. I had frozen kwm expirences too with minicli.

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