Re: [dev] [dmenu] patch and new release of dclip

Very cool! Thanks for this.

I haven't patched dmenu yet, but will probably do it first time I have
to put something huge into the clipboard (I don't think I have that
use case yet).

Everything else works great. Had to install xclip though.

Cheers,
Alex

On 12/21/09, Nibble <nibble.ds_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last weekend Delta and I were playing with dclip, fixing some bugs and
> finally, we think there are no more corner cases handling selections.
> For those of you, who don't know what dclip is:
>
> http://tecnoprawn.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/dclip/
>
> dclip is a lightweight clipboard manager (19 LOC in sh) that uses dmenu
> as frontend to show the stored selections and depends on xclip. It
> tries to unify the mess with different X selections.
>
> For example in dwm, in order to copy with M+C+c and paste with M+C+v
> you can add the following in your config.h:
>
> /* commands */
> static const char *dclipcmd[] = { "dclip", "paste", "-fn", font, "-nb",
> normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-s b", selbgcolor , "-sf",
> selfgcolor, NULL };
>
> and in the keys[] section:
>
> { MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_c, spawn, SHCMD("exec dclip copy") },
> { MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_v, spawn, {.v = dclipcmd } },
>
> Furthermore, using dclip I noticed that dmenu cannot create items larger
> than 1024 bytes, so I've modified the function readstdin in order
> to solve this issued. It was very bouring to copy a selection larger
> than 1024 chars with dclip and then have to paste several items from
> dmenu instead of just one.
>
> I attached the patch for dmenu-4.0 (last stable release) and dmenu-tip
> and the last release of dclip.
>
> Kind regards,
> -- Nibble
Received on Tue Dec 22 2009 - 02:22:27 UTC