FBRUN(1) Fluxbox Manual FBRUN(1)

NAME

fbrun - display run dialog window

SYNOPSIS

fbrun [options]

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.

OPTIONS

-title title
Set title

-text text
Text input

-w width
Window width in pixels

-h height
Window height in pixels

-display display
Display name, defaults to $DISPLAY

-pos x y
Window position in pixels

-nearmouse
Position the window under the mouse cursor

-fg color
Foreground text color. The default is black

-bg color
Background color. The default is white

-font name
Text font name

-hf filename
History file to load. The default is ~/.fluxbox/fbrun_history.

-help
Show this help

EXAMPLE

fbrun -fg black -bg white -text xterm -title "run xterm"

AUTHORS

This manpage was originally written by Bastian Kleineidam <calvin at
debian.org> for the Debian distribution of fluxbox (but may be used
by others).

It was then converted to asciidoc format by Jim Ramsay <i.am at
jimramsay.com> for fluxbox-1.1.2

SEE ALSO

fluxbox(1)

AUTHOR

Jim Ramsay <i.am@jimramsay.com>
Author.

fbrun.txt 08 February 2015 FBRUN(1)