[linux-audio-user] Re: E17 - our choice of WM in the future?

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/25/06, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:19 -0400, Rob wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:07, Paul Davis wrote:
> > > out of interest, how do you print a document without a command
> > > line
> >
> > "File/Print" and then click OK.  Works in kwrite, gedit,
> > Openoffice, pretty much any document-producing app worth
> > installing.
>
> no, no. i am talking about being in a file browser, not in a document
> editor. lets say i find foo.txt or bar.png or baz.pdf and i want to
> print it. what do i do?
>
> because in a command line environment i don't have to start up an
> editor, i just type "lpr foo.txt". it seems to me that this *must* be
> possible from the GUI equivalent, but in GNOME at least i cannot find
> it.
>

Do you mean something like the Windows 'Run' command? I don't think
Gnome has that, or I've never seen it. Of course Gnome does have a
terminal to instead of running the command it's open the terminal and
run the command. Not a big deal really.

I'm sure there is a finer point here?

- Mark