md8 - good stuff fella, I love quicksilver on my friends macs and I live by the run box (and all it's limitations) on windows so this is ideal. Please PM me a reminder and I will hopefully find time over the weekend to give this a try. The only thing is is that I don't have a standard xandros install any longer... installed quite a lot of things.

Will it work under easy mode? I don't rate the advanced mode as useful enough.

Cracking!

md81544 wrote:

You can find the program at http://www.marengo-ltd.com/mercury

Please make sure you read the install instructions and also the readme file... it's currently a bit manual to set up.

It works !!!

Thanks a lot for this app, It is really usefull & simple.

Is possible to have a look to the source code? It would be greater with any kind of open sorce license

And one suggestion for any next release: allow params (like in launchy), so yo can type "google (tab) any_word" and browser is launched at google page with "any_word" as search string.

Canopus:  cool, glad you like it.  It will be GPL, so the source will be available too.  Just wanted to make sure it worked OK first.  Did you need to install any specific SDL packages?  I'd like to add it to the documentation.

Marf: you can set your own hotkey through KDE: just add it to the menu and specify the hotkey there.

This is a great app md8.

I didn't need to install any extra packages. I don't have default install but I haven't installed a lot of packages.

Thanks!

It's working wonderfully for me, with  no extra packages installed.  In fact, I'd say it's the deal making app for me on my eee.  I can't wait to see how it evolves!

@Ferreol: yes, it does index Firefox bookmarks !

Glad to hear the positive comments.  Any suggestions might as well come here, or you can contact me at www.marengo-ltd.com/contact.php

It's a GPL application and I shall be releasing source to it in the next few days as well.

When you say "nothing happens" when you launch mercury from a terminal, do you literally mean the prompt came back and nothing happened, or did you get an error message?

Well, we think it may not need any extra packages... but can you please cd to the directory in which you installed mercury, then type "./mercury" and tell me there is anything printed at all.  If not, please type "ldd ./mercury" and tell me what that displays?  Thank you!

Hmmmm, I downloaded it and followed directions but I get a segmentation fault when run.  It seems that it could be an SDL thing or something.  I don't have a "clean" eeepc, I've installed the development packages (gcc) and numerous applications from the repositories (from the wiki) any ideas?


Edit: I installed lib1.2debian-all from the repositories and it still won't work.  Same thing segmentation fault.  I did:
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-all

Last edited by bostonvaulter (2007-12-18 8:09:55 pm)

Okay here's the output.  And they are in the same directory.  Hope it helps.

    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7fb1000)
    libSDL_image-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0 (0xb7f87000)
    libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xb7ece000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7de8000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7dc3000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7db8000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7c86000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7c74000)
    libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb7c51000)
    libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7c3c000)
    libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0xb7b7b000)
    libartsc.so.0 => /usr/lib/libartsc.so.0 (0xb7b75000)
    libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb7b72000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7b6e000)
    libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb7b6a000)
    libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb7ad7000)
    libesd.so.0 => /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 (0xb7ace000)
    libaudiofile.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0 (0xb7aaa000)
    libaudio.so.2 => /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0xb7a94000)
    libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb7a45000)
    libdirectfb-0.9.so.25 => /usr/lib/libdirectfb-0.9.so.25 (0xb79ee000)
    libfusion-0.9.so.25 => /usr/lib/libfusion-0.9.so.25 (0xb79e7000)
    libdirect-0.9.so.25 => /usr/lib/libdirect-0.9.so.25 (0xb79d8000)
    libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0xb7978000)
    libaa.so.1 => /usr/lib/libaa.so.1 (0xb795d000)
    libcaca.so.0 => /usr/lib/libcaca.so.0 (0xb7955000)
    libcucul.so.0 => /usr/lib/libcucul.so.0 (0xb78d8000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fb2000)
    librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/librt.so.1 (0xb78cf000)
    libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb78c6000)
    libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb78ae000)
    libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb77c2000)
    libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7781000)
    libslang.so.2 => /lib/libslang.so.2 (0xb76c2000)
    libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0xb76bc000)
    libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7670000)
    libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb766d000)
    libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7668000)

Just to let everyone know that the source to this application is now available from the site as well.  www.marengo-ltd.com/mercury

If you make changes, I'd appreciate anything good being fed back so I can incorporate it into the "official" source!

You'll need the SDL development packages to build it.  Specifically I think libsdl1.2-dev out of the Debian repositories.  I can't remember whether this includes other SDL-related stuff or whether you'll also need, for example, SDL_Image stuff.  Try just that one first and see if you get a clean build.