BenTrabetere wrote: ⤴Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:05 amGaak! Did I post to the wrong thread? Or did a mod merge two threads? I hope folks from the other thread see this one.
Yeah, I thought I was posting on the first page, and now it's page 5 or 6.
Edit: thread started "by vrkalak » Mon Dec 21, 2009"
I wish I could figure out what it ["W"] does, how to use it, and why I would want to use it.
Well, I hardly ever use menus; if I want to run some Mint function (say "mint drivers") from a terminal, I find the name like this:
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$ W mint
mint-drivers
mint-fortune
mint-release-upgrade
...
or
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$ W driver
loadndisdriver
mint-drivers
pildriver
...
then I can copy/paste the resulting name (mint-drivers); it's faster than using menus (menus are actually a pretty slow GUI if you have to go down more than one level - but you don't have to remember anything), although it'd be a lot handier if there were some naming convention, like if dvd software had "dvd" in the name:
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$ W dvd
AnyDVD
convxdvd
dvd+rw-booktype
...
The first two are windows programs running under wine. But "handbrake" dvd ripper doesn't show up. Sigh.