Package grun: Information

gRun is a GTK based Run dialog that closely resembles the Windows Run dialog, just like xexec.
It has a intelligent history mechanism and a dual level fork() mechanism for launching the application
in its own process. gRun also has support for launching console mode application in an XTerm as well as
associations for file types.
gRun is much more powerful than xexec, looks a lot better, and has the big advantage that you can start
typing a command without having to mouse-click into the text field.

gRun is especially useful if you do not use the GNOME desktop which has a built-in run command, and if
you use a window-manager (e.g. IceWM) where you can define a keyboard shortcut (e.g. Alt-F2) for staring gRun.