Re: [dwm] dmenu request

Thanks. And I'm blaming X... or fork()... because it doesn't catch
keypresses.

I'm trying out plenty of these suggestions. I wish there was some way of
dealing with it directly in C... but having it as a script certainly makes
it more accessible in a "runtime" sense. Thanks!

On 12/1/06, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:34:03PM -0500, Bill Puschmann wrote:
> > I'm curious if it would even be possible to allow typing into dmenu
> before
> > the "tab-completion" fields being piped in are populated.
>
> Actually dmenu grabs the keyboard before(!) reading from
> standard input, hence X should cache all keypresses it gets
> during this time until readstdin(); finishes. If not, then blame
> X or fork().
>
> On the other hand I also agree that using a program list cache
> is wise.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
>
>

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