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Opening terminal, entering command, hitting enter, works fine. Can we optimize, get rid of that first step: Rather than opening a terminal, can commands be entered directly into a panel, via some single-line terminal widget (on Debian/Mate)?

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    You mean like Alt+F2 or without even that step? Where would the results of the command be displayed in this panel? Commented Feb 18 at 10:09
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    Are you looking for the -e option to typical terminals, such as xterm -e sh -c 'pwd; read' Commented Feb 18 at 11:20
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    Have you looked at things like the now defunct gnome-do, or ulauncher or other application launchers? Commented Feb 19 at 11:26
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    In the question title you say "Terminal command". In a followup command you say you want GUIs (I assume you don't mean terminal-based apps) and you also say you don't want a terminal. Could you please clarify the confusion, and give a couple of concrete examples? How is the terminal involved, if at all; if it's not then why does it appear in the question title and the tags? For a graphical application (such as e.g. firefox, gimp etc.), the fact that you can type its name in a terminal and then it's launched, does not make it a terminal command, they have nothing to do with terminals. Commented Feb 19 at 18:55
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    "A terminal command is anything that can be executed in a terminal, right?" – if so then what is a non-terminal command? What command can not be executed in a terminal? Commented Feb 22 at 19:55

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