Re: [dev] dmenu -m "new%patch" -d "%"

On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:58:12 +0100
Martin Ellis <ellism88_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We had a strange situation where putting the menu in stdin was
> difficult.
>
> For our situation supplying the menu on the command line would be
> easier.
>
> Attached is a patch that provides this.
>
> The new syntax is
>
> dmenu -m "hello\nworld"
>
> or use the -d flag to specify the seperator
>
> dmenu -m "hello%world" -d "%"
>
> The old style still works.
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> Mex.

maybe you should mention what problem you had where writing to stdin
did not work. it's likely it can be fixed.

Dieter
Received on Tue May 11 2010 - 11:02:32 UTC