tail -f findings.out

This tweak is a little more involved than most I put up, but it is totally worth it. When done, you can fire off any custom web search from Launchy!

Here are the steps (I assume you have Launchy installed and know what a keyword bookmark is):

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While I have been (and still am) a big GNOME-Do fan, I just found that Launchy runs on Linux now. And it works just the same! This post describes how to get it installed on Ubuntu (too bad it isn’t in the repos yet, but it is an easy install nonetheless). The look, feel, and features are basically identical to the Windows version, which is pretty nice for those of us that have to live separate OS lives. And I wasn’t using the Linux-specific features of GNOME-Do yet, so I am not missing anything. Give it a try!

I had some problems using Launchy on Vista a while ago (slow, crashed), but the latest version has been working like Ajax on the plains of Scamander. I won’t go into the details of Launchy here, as much has been written about it. Basically it is an awesome keystroke launcher, similar to Quicksilver, Gnome-Do, and the like.

There are some plugins for Launchy that expands what it can do, and one super handy one is the PuTTY Plugin. You will need to exit out of Launchy before running the installer. After you install it, go into Launchy’s Options, then Plugins, then PuTTY. Check the “Add session names directly to catalog” option. Now you can get Launchy to open a session for you based on whatever names you have assigned in PuTTY! So now with something like “mycoolserver” + enter, you are logged in. Couldn’t be much faster unless you assigned a keyboard shortcut to login to your servers, which only works if you have a few.