Staying In the Activities Area When Launching Applications

[Jon Kristensen <jon kristensen nejla se>]

 What do you think about this idea:

When first starting my computer I usually want to start a number of 
applications that I do not want to autostart. So what I do is that I 
type "firefox" and press Enter, press the system key to get back to the 
activities area, type something else and press Enter, etc, etc, etc.

Would it be possible to instead of pressing Enter pressing something 
like Ctrl + Enter and NOT have the activities area close. So I 
immediately could start typing again. This behaviour could be the same 
for mouse clicks; Ctrl + Left Mouse Click opens an application while 
keeping the activities area open.

Warm regards,
Jon