bashrun2 is an application launcher based on a modified bash session in a small terminal window, providing all the well known bash features like tab-completion and history.
The tool adds application launching capabilities to interactive bash sessions, suitable for a graphical user environment.
It offers an application launcher in the style of a simple run dialog by starting an interactive bash session. There’s also a built-in terminal mode.
Supported terminals are xterm, urxvt, mrxvt, mlterm and aterm.
Key Features
- Automatic detection of console applications.
- Rules for running console applications in dedicated terminals.
- Run commands with a different user id.
- regexp based command line rewriting (file associations, web shortcuts, etc).
- User-defined actions and extensions.
- Terminal mode available if you want to use a dedicated, bashrun augmented terminal that can be brought up front with a single keybinding in your window manager or desktop environment.
- Remote control features. A lightweight remote interface to an existing bashrun run-dialog session is installed in the current bash session.
- Built-in support for using (Debian’s) urxvtcd script.
- Experimental support for cygwin/cygwin-x.
Website: henning-liebenau.de/bashrun2
Support: Quick start guide, GitHub code repository
Developer: Henning Bekel
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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