Why not making XFrun a daemon?

[Shahar Weiss]

Scott Jones wrote:

>On Monday 15 March 2004 14:13, Shahar Weiss wrote:
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>>Hello. I've been using XFCE for a while, and I make a very extensive
>>use of XFrun to launch applications. However, whenever I type Alt+F2
>>it takes an annoying 2 seconds for the prompt to show up, and I'm
>>guessing the reason is due to the fact XFrun is a single application
>>which is ran whenever you use Alt+F2.
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>>Turning it into a daemon would make it faster I think, and since it's
>>pretty small I couldn't find a reason for not turning it into a
>>daemon.
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>>So... why not? :)
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>I don't know about the why or why not, but take a look at the minicmd 
>plugin.  It puts a mini command line on the panel, and uses the same 
>history as xfrun4.  You can grab it from the Goodies site at Berlios 
>(link is in my .sig).
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Yeah, I know the tool. Unfortunately my panel is vertical so it doesn't 
look good :|
Basically what I mean is that instead of closing the app when you click 
Ok or Cancel, just hide the window until Alt+F2 is clicked.