FBRUN(1)

💻✨ FBRUN(1) ✨💻

okay so this is the Fluxbox Manual page for fbrun, and it’s literally the cutest little run-dialog situation. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

fbrun — display run dialog window. That’s it, that’s the name, slay. 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

fbrun [options]

No cap, that’s the whole vibe. ✨

🦋 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. Highkey important, bestie. 😭

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. iykyk. 🦋

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -title title — sets the title. 💅
• -text text — text input, bestie. ✨
• -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 — positions the window under the mouse cursor. 🖱️
• -center — positions the window on the screen center. 🎯
• -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. 📜
• -cf filename — completion data to load. The default is empty. If no data can be loaded, completion defaults to executables in $PATH. 🧠
• -preselect — selects the preset text given by the -text parameter. 👀
• -autocomplete — complete on typing. You can also set the FBRUN_AUTOCOMPLETE environment (to any value). ⌨️
• -help — show this help. 🆘

🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

like, for real:

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

Ate. 💅

🫶 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) — go read that one too, iykyk. 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jim Ramsay <i.am@jimramsay.com> — Author. periodt. 💜

💌 that’s the whole page, bestie — source/version footer bits: fbrun.txt, 08 February 2015, FBRUN(1). mwah 💋