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Verve

About

The Verve panel plugin is a comfortable command line plugin for the Xfce panel. It supports several nice features, such as:

Command history
Auto-completion (including command history)
Open URLs and eMail addresses in your favourite applications
Focus grabbing via D-BUS (so you can bind a shortcut to it)
Custom input field width

Usage

Once added to the panel, you can use the following keys to control Verve:

TAB to iterate through auto-completion entries
UP and DOWN arrows to iterate through the command history
CTRL+ENTER to run a command in a terminal emulator
ESC to clear your input

If you want to launch URLs or eMail addresses using Verve, just paste them into the input field and press ENTER.

Focus Grabbing

Verve installs a script named verve-focus which can be used to bind a keyboard shorcut for Verve to grab the focus. To do so, you first need to open the Xfce settings manager:

xfce-setting-show

Once the dialog has appeared, chose Keyboard. In the next dialog, select the Shortcuts tab and add a shortcut for verve-focus.

After this, Verve should grab the focus and start blinking whenever you press this shortcut. To stop the blinking, just type something (like a command or something else) or click on it with the mouse.