 Okay, this is a Linux quick tip on a shortcut that you may or may not be aware of it's kind of for beginners But even as advanced users sometimes we miss simple little things so Most nowadays most desktop environments have a nice quick search feature in the application menu such as the whisker plug-in here for Xfce So I can type something like chrome or ice weasel or terminal and find the application I'm looking for quickly But some desktop environments such as the default application for Xfce has a menu like this Which does not have a quick search feature And a lot of lightweight Desktops flux box ice window manager those sort of things don't have those features built into their application menu And I really you know menus like this are okay But it's so much quicker to just be able to you know type like that and open a terminal If you don't already have a shortcut key to open the terminal, which many people do But pretty much every desktop environment in Linux has a default shortcut of alt 2 alt I'm sorry alt f2 which opens up your application Finder or your program runner, whatever you want to call it and it's slightly different From desktop to desktop as far as its look But basically it gives you this little run bar where you can start typing and it will usually autocomplete for you in to a point So there I typed in Ter and it gives me terminal I can just press enter so I can I'll def to I can type in CR. Oh, that's right. Well Google Chrome is Google Dash Chrome. It's actually not a good example, but I can run it by typing out the full name there I can type in ice for ice weasel. I can type in Kate for Kate text editor and But just just typing k a and you can see it starts giving me list and I am an X FCE So it's giving that little drop down again. It may vary from desktop to desktop But again, that's alt f2 to bring up this application launcher application finder program runner, whatever you want to call it It's a pretty standard key Shortcut alt f2 they can come in very handy So I thought I'd share that with you if you were not already familiar with that and you're running a lightweight desktop that has a menu But not a quick search feature. It probably already has alt f2 built-in so I thought I'd share that again if you're running a a higher end I Don't want to say higher end But if you're running something like KDE or gnome, you can just use your shortcut for your menu or Ff fxc if you have a certain application installed for that But again later desktop environments black box flux box ice window manager. These things are not going to have The menu like that so alt f2 give it a try Might speed things up for you a little bit. Thanks for watching and as always I hope you enjoyed this video Be sure to check out films by Chris comm. That's Chris with a K There should be a link in the description and as always be sure to like subscribe rate share my videos It does help me a lot, and I hope that you have a great day