Request: Bring back xfrun4 mode

Submitted by Timo Lindemann

Assigned to Nick Schermer

Link to original bug (#9131)

Description

I hope this is the place to bring up a suggestion. I've been using xfrun4 so much the past years that I really am not happy with appfinder. xfrun4 could autocomplete previously entered commands; appfinder seems not to be capable of remembering or completing some of my most used scripts (residing in ~/bin, for instance, which is in $PATH). That would not be so annoying if appfinder would actually remember commands that were run, which it somehow forgets after a reboot.

Because this severely impacts my workflow and is so annoying, I suggest adding xfrun4 behaviour back to appfinder and make it an option.

Examples of commands that are run the most on my box from Alt+F2 which are just not cached by appfinder over reboots:

sudo hibernate # suspends system
hddual.sh # script in ~/bin
single.sh # script in ~/bin
dpmsoff.sh # script in ~/bin

also, things like

startx ~/bin/fallout2.sh -- :1 # starts fallout 2 via wine, it's just an example

used to work because xfrun remembered the whole line.

Thanks for your consideration.

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