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GNOME Do (often referred to as Do) is a popular, free application launcher for Linux

GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items. Allows to quickly search for many items present on the desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those.

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Can't bind gnome-do to Super + Space or Ctrl+Alt+Space

With today's updates to 12.04 I can no longer bind gnome-do to either ctrl+alt+space or super+space. With 11.10 it wasn't possible to use super+space, on a fresh install of 12.04 super+space was working properly. Today it stopped working, if I try…
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How do I remap the keyboard shortcut for Gnome Do?

I am giving Unity a chance to win me over in Natty, but I admit I am a heavy Gnome Do user and Unity has remapped the Super+Space keyboard shortcut to show the Unity Launcher. I am not yet convinced with the new Unity Launcher and would like to…
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What is eating the Super+Space shortcut?

I used to have Gnome-Do bound to Super+Space but this stopped working after upgrading to Oneiric. I assume this has something to do with the new Gnome/Compiz combination. I've looked through both Gnome's and Compiz's shortcuts but can't see anything…
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Synapse doesn't remember anything

When I was using Gnome Do, it could remember all applications I use much more frequently, and then it could make a correct suggestion. Example: I have applications Cheese(web-cam app, I don't this much) and Chromium (browser, I launch new window…
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Is GNOME-DO Themeable?

I was wondering if Gnome DO is themable, besides the 5 pre-installed themes.. I took a look at the projects' page and didn't discover anything. Do you know if there is any chance of unofficial theming or theming plugins? Have anyone tried to change…
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How to open a man page using gnome-do?

Is there a way to use gnome-do to launch some man page in the help GUI? Or some other two-click approach I could employ? I can open help and then use Ctrl+L to open man:find -- can I make that even faster?
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Have windows key (meta) trigger Gnome-do instead of Unity Dash (12.04)

On my laptop the Unity Dash often launches really slowly. I might press the Windows button, and sometimes it will take up to 15 seconds to open, and the system becomes unresponsive during this time. This is especially likely if I haven't opened…
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Customize Gnome-Do's default action order

I'm using Gnome-Do with the "Files and Folders v2.5" plugin. I set it to read my .scripts folder, so that I might run my personal scripts from Gnome-Do. The only problem is that Gnome-Do's standard action for shell scripts is to open them instead of…
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How to get Docky to work like gnome-do?

Is there a way to get Docky ton act like Gnome-Do? I installed just the docky package. I would like it to be able to search for other things that are not in the dock. Is this possible or would it just be easier to install Gnome-Do separate.
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Gnome-Do in doesn't have the docky appearance anymore

I know docky can be installed seperately from gnome-do but I like both and don't want to install both app when I can install one only. Is there a way to get docky back in gnome-do?
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Why can't gnome-do find my files?

I use a handful of files fairly often but Gnome-do can never seem to find them. Documents/foo/Infrastructure/cheat-sheet.txt never comes up when I type "cheat-sheet" though it is right there if I do locate cheat-sheet and I have no trouble bringing…
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Does Gnome Do work with Gnote?

There's a great plugin for Gnome Do that searches tomboy notes really quickly. I can't imagine living without it. I want to switch to gnote, but I don't know whether it will work with Gnome Do. Is there a simple way to get them to work together?
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How do I automatically respawn GNOME Do when it crashes?

I use, and love, GNOME Do. Sometimes, though, it crashes and I have to re-run it from the menu. Is it possible to set up my GNOME session to automatically try to respawn Do? I realize there are some caveats contemplating this - if my system gets…
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How to become a power user of gnome-do?

Just a few months back, I discovered gnome-do. I have heard that its a great tool for ubuntu. However, I haven't been able to use it except for starting/running applications like firefox, thunderbird, gedit etc. It would be great if people can…
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"Gnome Do" stops working

After one or two times I use Gnome Do, it stops working. Yet it does not give out an error message. I currently have it configured to pop up when with then Super + Space key combination. I have to constantly go to the menu and activate it again.
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