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xxxspuddy

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Registered: 2007-05-15

Posts: 57

Boot system into selected OS using KDE and grub

Hi All,

I've just started using Arch after using openSuSE for a while and I must say that I am very impressed with its performance and stability!  I have found 2 things that I miss after using openSuSE's implementation of KDE:

1.  There is no searchbar in my K menu  &

I've not been able to find a patch/package that provides this function.  Is it available in the kdemod repo?

2.  When I pick an OS from my shutdown options to reboot into, grub ignores it and just shows the standard boot options

I've "borrowed" the /usr/sbin/grubonce script from my openSuSE install and when run from the commandline it works perfectly, I would really like for KDE to use the script.

I know they are not major things, but I after being used to using these features, it would be nice to get them back.  Any hints would be greatly appreciated

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Boot system into selected OS using KDE and grub

kdemod by default uses suse's kickoff (revised kmenu with searchbar and different structure), which you are probably looking for.

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Could you upload that /usr/sbin/grubonce somewhere? I want to have a look.

Last edited by lucke (2007-05-15 14:31:50)

xxxspuddy

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Registered: 2007-05-15

Posts: 57

Re: Boot system into selected OS using KDE and grub

Thanks for the reply.  I'm looking for the standard K-menu but with a search option between 'Most Used Applications' and 'All Applications', if you type the name of a program then it highlights the path to it so you can find it more easily.

I tried the Kickoff menu but found it to be cumbersome to use and it never integrated well if you customize your desktop.

I've uploaded the script to:

http://spudman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/grubonce.pl

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