Run Command doesn't find anything

[mageiaUser99]

In windows, and Mac os, I always open programs by searching instead of diving through menus. I assume that this is what the run command(alt+F2) is for. It hasn't been working for me. I have all of the "available features" such as applications, checked in the settings menu, but it doesn't find anything. I can't run console commands from it either. It just doesn't work. How can I fix this?

[pete910]

Works fine on mine as does search via the start menu.

It should display a list under what you've typed that matches.
As in if I type mail it lists kmail first then thunderbird if you see what i mean!

Pete.

Edit: It won't show commands that are root only by the way.
eg urpmi does not show but rpm does then the package installer is shown

[djennings]

It would help if you told us which desktop you are using. They do not all behave the same.

[mageiaUser99]

I'm using kde. I'm positive now that it isn't working properly. I used it on Suse recently and that worked how I would expect. Is it possible that it needs to re-index? Is it possible to force it to do so?

[doktor5000]

Please give some examples for commands which do not work so we can try to reproduce. Many commands which can be run from a terminal will not work as you'll only see the output in the terminal.

[Ken-Bergen]

As the Doktor said examples would be nice but for what it's worth (alt+F2) will as far as I know only run commands in your path.
Some commands in your path will ask for the root password but anything root only cannot be run as a user using (alt+F2).

[mageiaUser99]

"vim" would be a command that doesn't work. But neither does gvim, Firefox, Konsole, or the name of any other gui app work either.

[Ken-Bergen]

"vim" would be a command that doesn't work. But neither does gvim, Firefox, Konsole, or the name of any other gui app work either.

Case sensitive?
firefox and konsole both work here from the alt+f2 prompt.
vim of course being a console application needs to be run from a console.

[mageiaUser99]

It should definitely be able to find the gui apps u search for. It works fine for me on opensuse. At this point, I'm just curious how to fix it.

[tom_]

we need to see what is happening there...

the name of that executable should be

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krunner

may you run it in konsole and post the output?
if there is no significant output, you should install strace (urpmi strace) and run

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strace -e file krunner