Install KRunner AppMenu under Kubuntu 11.10/12.04

By Umair Monday, February 13, 2012




AppMenu Runner is a smart menu HUD style that not only looks like HUD but uses the same technology it uses and which was developed by Alex Fiestas 7 months ago, making an application to HUD AppMenu like Runner and not the other but was "abandoned" for technical reasons that made ​​AppMenu Runner a unique tool applications KDE .

Runner AppMenu could be available for version 4.9 of KDE should be accepted by the development team Plasma, anyway, here are a small sample of what might be using KDE users in a short time, sample the vision and the great effort that the team put in your KDE desktop environment.

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It is important to note that AppMenu Runner does not work unless this menu is not showing in the window , so you have to include 'Window Menubar' to a panel or install 'Oxygen Appmenu' to ensure the functioning of the application .

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Installation of KRunner Appmenu:

First of all Dependencies Installation, open Terminal and enter following commands:
sudo apt-get install libdbusmenu-qt-dev kdelibs5-dev appmenu-qt cmake pkg-config pkg-kde-tools libqt4-dev build-essential git-core

Now Download Source of KRunner from GitHub:
cd
git clone git://anongit.kde.org/scratch/afiestas/appmenu.git

Now compile the source
cd appmenu
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='kde4-config --prefix'
make
sudo make install

Now logout and login back.

To use KRunner AppMenu, Select an application and press Alt+F2 and type you want to perform.
Enjoy
Umair

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