Plasma/Krunner
KRunner (iniciado com Alt-F2 ou Alt-SPACE) é um iniciador integrado ao Plasma Desktop. Enquanto sua funcionalidade básica é iniciar programas de um tipo de mini-linha-de-comando, sua funcionalidade pode ser extendida por "runners" para ajudar o usuário completar suas tarefas.
Funcionalidades
Essa lista tenta apresentar alguns exemplos básicos de como usar o KRunner. Descubra mais clicando no ícone '?' no KRunner.
Inicie e pare aplicações
Você pode iniciar programas apenas digitando o nome das aplicações que você quer iniciar - ou mais simples ainda: aperte a seta pra baixo para listar os programas mais usados recentemente que você digitou antes.
Você talvez digite um único caractere e KRunner vai começar a encontrar resultados. Resultados são encontrados das aplicações do seu menu de aplicativos customizável (para isso, botão direito no menu).
Examples:
| Input | Output |
gwe |
(inicia Gwenview) |
Você pode usar o KRunner para encerrar aplicações também. Digite a palavra-chave kill seguido pelo nome do processo e KRunner vai disponibilizar opções para fechar a aplicação (SIGTERM) ou sair forçadamente (SIGKILL). KRunner irá buscar por nomes de processo parciais nas aplicações rodando.
Note que a palavra-chave kill pode ser mudada no runner "Encerre Aplicações" para evitar confusão com o comando shell kill que aceita IDs de processos.
Instalação Direta
Caso você esteja procurando por uma aplicação ainda não instalada, KRunner irá sugerir uma lista de aplicações que correspondem com sua busca. como o KRunner foi integrado ao Plasma Software Center, Discover, apresentará uma lista de aplicativos, permitindo que você prossiga com a instalação direta.
Inicie comandos (shell)
Além de aplicações listadas no menu de aplicações, KRunner também pode ser usado para rodas comandos shell, isso inclui iniciar binários. Note que quando escrevendo comandos shell, KRunner não aceitará comandos parciais ou autocompletar automaticamente.
Running a command like this brings up a wrench icon which offers additional options. You can choose to spawn a terminal and run the command there (this can be useful if your command produces text output that you want to read), or choose to run the program as a different user (by providing the username and password of that user).
Examplos:
| Input | Output |
ls ~/Documentos |
lista os conteúdos de ~/Documentos (preferencialmente por um terminal) |
cp ~/Documentos/meuArquivo ~/meuArquivo |
copia meuArquivo de ~/Documentos para ~/ |
mplayer meuFilme.mkv |
toca meuFilme.mkv no mplayer |
Incidentally, if the command line is your thing, you may appreciate the built in integration to man pages. Simply type a command name preceded by a # or man:/ to open the man page formatted for easy readability in your browser.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
#ls |
opens the manual for ls in a browser |
man:/grep |
opens the manual for grep in a browser |
Busque websites
Você pode simplesmente começar a digitar a URL de um website que você quer abrir no seu navegador padrão. Você talvez até digite o nome de um favorito e KRunner irá abri-lo para você. Se você já visitou o website antes, KRunner pode pegar resultados do histórico do seu navegador também.
Examplos:
| Input | Output |
meuFavorito |
abre o favorito no navegador |
kde.org |
abre a homepage do KDE no navegador |
http://userbase.kde.org/ |
abre Userbase no navegador |
KRunner já sabe seus atalhos web, achados nas Configurações do Sistema do Plasma, então você pode começar a usá-las diretamente.
Examplos:
| Input | Output |
gg:KDE |
busca no Google por KDE |
wp:krunner |
busca na Wikipedia por krunner |
KRunner também oferece opções para baixar arquivos da internet usando KGet fornecendo sua URL.
Runners adicionais existem para buscas rápidas na Wikipedia, Wikitravel e KDE Techbase.
Abra arquivos, pastas e dispositivos
KRunner can also open files and directories on your local machine for you. If you want to browse remote machines, you can do that, too. Notice how KRunner uses kioslaves for ssh (fish:) and samba (smb:).
Examples:
| Input | Output |
file:/home/ |
opens file:///home/ (the Home directory) in Dolphin |
file:myMovie.mkv |
opens /home/myMovie.mkv |
fish:you@server.com |
opens fish:/you@server.com/ via fish (file over ssh) protocol |
smb:myWindowsBox |
opens smb:/myWindowsBox via Samba |
If you don't know the path to a file, simply type the name of the file. If the file is a recently opened document, KRunner will list it for you. If you have enabled "File Search" provided by Baloo daemon, you can also search your computer for the file by its indexed contents. KRunner will also open folders you've bookmarked in Dolphin (in your Places sidebar) if you type their name in. What's more, if you want to access devices on your system (both mounted and unmounted), you can do that, too. KRunner will even provide device-specific options.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
Home |
opens the Home directory in Dolphin |
myFlashDrive |
shows options to mount or open the contents of myFlashDrive |
Multitarefa com seções, janelas, áreas de trabalho e atividades
Several KDE applications allow you to save and load sessions. KRunner allows you to launch these sessions. You can either type in the name of the application or directly type in the name of the session. Runners exist for opening sessions saved in Kate, Konqueror, Konsole, etc.
KRunner is a multitasker's dream. If you have too many windows open, just type in the title of the window and switch directly to it. You can similarly type in the name of a virtual desktop and switch directly to it. If you roll with activities, switch activities by typing their name in. KRunner will find a match as soon as you type three characters in.
KRunner will even switch desktop sessions for you. Type in the keyword switch or new session to start a separate X session. You can switch back and forth between sessions by using the switch keyword.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
Desktop 1 |
switches the virtual desktop to Desktop 1 |
myWorkActivity |
switches the activity to myWorkActivity |
switch |
shows options to switch to an existing session or start a new one |
new session |
starts a new session |
Several plasma widgets can be launched as windowed applications. You can simply type the name of a widget and KRunner will launch a window for you.
Fale com pessoas
Type in the name of a contact in your KAddressBook to get a list of options to contact them. Typing in an email address into KRunner will open a KMail composer window. You can also search through contacts in your Kopete contact list.
The addressbook and kopete runners don't seem to be working in SC 4.8.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
kde@mail.kde.org |
compose a mail to the KDE mailing list |
myContact |
show options to contact myContact |
Escute alguma música
You can control any modern audio player such as Amarok using KRunner. You can use several keywords (all configurable) to play, pause or skip songs. Typing in the name of an artist, album or song that is in Amarok's library will let you either play immediately, play next (queue) or play at the end (append) of the current playlist. You can use keywords to increase or decrease the volume of the player, or even to mute or quit it.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
play song search |
plays a song immediately |
pause |
pauses Amarok or your designated music player |
next |
plays next song in playlist |
Sempre em ponto
You can get the current date or time by typing in the keywords date or time. Selecting the result will copy it to your clipboard so you can paste it elsewhere. The format of the date and time respects your system settings.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
date |
Today's date is ... |
time |
The current time is ... |
You can even get the date and time at another location by specifying the time zone or the city listed in the TZ database.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
time UTC |
The current time in UTC is ... |
time oslo |
The current time in Europe/Oslo is ... |
time kolkata |
The current time in Asia/Kolkata is ... |
There is a runner for interfacing with Korganizer and fetching events, but it doesn't seem to be working in SC 4.8.
Calculadora
KRunner features a very versatile calculator that can be called by starting or ending a calculation with an = sign. In addition to basic arithmetic, you can call scientific functions like sqrt(), sin(), log(), etc. A list of the supported functions is here. Note that trigonometric functions like sin(), cos(), etc expect the angle in radians. KRunner understands pi in expressions.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
32*12 = |
384 |
= sqrt(4) + 32*sin(30*pi/180) |
18 |
KRunner also supports combinatorics functions, like perm() or comb().
Examples:
| Input | Output |
= perm(10,5) |
30240 |
= comb(10,5) |
252 |
KRunner can also handle symbolic mathematics and perform integration and differentiation on expressions
Examples:
| Input | Output |
= integrate( -x/y^2, y ) |
-x/y |
diff( log(x) ) = |
1/x |
You can also use KRunner to solve polynomial functions to find its roots.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
= solve( x^2 + 4*x - 21 = 0 ) |
[3, -7] |
KRunner intelligently handles units as part of the calculations. Try the following examples to see how.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
= 2.5 kg * 10 m/s^2 |
25 N |
220 V / 10 A = |
22 ohms |
Since KRunner understands most units, you can use it to convert them very quickly. Note that unit conversions don't require an = sign.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
30 F |
-1.11111 degrees C (°C), 273.039 K, ... |
27.8 km |
1.09449e+06 inches (in), 17.2742 miles (mi), ... |
5 gallons in liters |
18.9271 liters (l) |
KRunner knows currencies, too. Conversions between currencies is done by fetching the exchange rate from the European Central Bank website.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
1 dollar |
0.657002 pounds sterling (GBP), 0.742501 euros (EUR), ... |
125 euros |
110.606 pounds sterling (GBP), 15,785 yen (JPY), ... |
30 JPY in RUB |
9.40731 rubles (RUB) |
Viage
Se você tem lugares favoritos no Marble (no OpenStreetMap), KRunner pode abrir no mapa diretamente.
Correção de escrita e caracteres especiais
KRunner pode te dizer quando sua escrita está correta e/ou sugerir correções. A palavra-chave padrão para iniciar a correção ortográfica é spell e pode ser configurado.
Exemplos:
| Input | Output |
spell linux |
Palavras sugeridas: Linux, lynx, ... |
'KRunner também permite você escolher caracteres especiais se você especificar o unicode hexadecimal do caracter, precedido por um sinal #.
Exemplos:
| Input | Output |
#03b2 |
β |
#00b1 |
± |
Gerencie seu computador
You can directly open system settings control modules from KRunner. Often, if you want to change something, just type associated terms and KRunner will find the control module with the settings you want.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
keyboard |
opens the Keyboard settings control module |
fonts |
opens the fonts settings control module |
password |
opens the Password & User account control module |
KRunner can also be used to adjust the screen brightness by using the keywords "screen brightness". You can specify a percentage or just turn the brightness halfway or fully down. Additionally, keywords exist to suspend, logout, shutdown or restart your machine.
Examples:
| Input | Output |
screen brightness 100 |
increases screen brightness to 100% |
sleep |
suspends computer to RAM |
lock |
locks the screen |
restart |
restarts computer |
shutdown |
shutdowns computer |
Usage
Open KRunner
The easiest way to open KRunner is to trigger its global shortcut (Alt+Space or Alt+F2, by default). In some activities (e.g. Desktop), you can simply click on the desktop and start typing. In others (e.g. Search and Launch), KRunner may be built into the activity itself.
You can also right-click on your plasma workspace and select or just simply launch it from the commandline by typing krunner.
Use KRunner
Use Tab/Ctrl+j or Shift+Tab/Ctrl+k to navigate up and down results. Use arrow keys to move between options (if any) in a result. Use Enter (or left click) to select a result.
Discover KRunner
Click on the wrench icon to bring up configuration options where you can enable/disable/configure runners that will process your searches. Additional options are available to change the position on the screen where krunner appears. You can even change the style to a task-oriented interface, if you like.
Clicking on the '?' icon opens a scrollable list that explains the syntax of all the available runners. This is a good way to discover new functionality!
Tips, Tricks and FAQs
You can use KRunner in a special "single runner" mode. While in this mode, KRunner will only have one active runner to process your searches. This feature isn't supported by all runners, but quite a few already do. Open the global keyboard shortcuts control module directly from KRunner and choose the "Run Command Interface" to see what's available. Set a global shortcut for the mode you want and launch KRunner in that mode. You can have as many modes as you can find shortcuts for. 
This blog covers some of the advanced usage of the calculator runner.