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linux-magazine.com » Issues » 2005 » 55 » READY FOR ACCESS   Launching a program by clicking with your mouse can have a few disadvantages. Users lose their way in nested menu structures, and desktop icons can become hidden behind windows. The Apwal program launcher makes it easy to launch with a click. Applications on demand with Apwal program launcher READY FOR ACCESS Author(s): ANDREA MÜLLER Launching a program by clicking with your mouse can have a few disadvantages. Users lose their way in nested menu structures, and desktop icons can become hidden behind windows. The Apwal program launcher makes it easy to launch with a click. Modern desktops and window managers typically give you all the options you need to launch your favorite programs by clicking with your mouse. This saves time, as clicking takes just a couple of seconds, in contrast to entering commands at the command line. But this still wasn’t fast enough for Pascal Eberhard. Moving active windows to look for icons wasn’t his idea of efficiency. This prompted Pascal to develop Apwal [1], an icon-based program launcher that pops up a userdefined selection of icons under the mouse cursor when called on. The program name is an acronym for advanced and powerful window app launcher. Read full article as PDF » Comments Launching a program by clicking with your mouse can have a few disadvantages. Users lose their way in nested menu structures, and desktop icons can become hidden behind windows. The Apwal program launcher makes it easy to launch with a click. Wherever you go... ...Linux Magazine goes with you! Check out the advantages of a Digital Subscription: Access articles by downloading PDFs, find the Linux solutions you need with an easy keyword search, maintain your own paperless archive... more...

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