Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:11:33PM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 3/7/08, Joerg van den Hoff <j.van_den_hoff_AT_fzd.de> wrote:
> > I was expecting that the selected entry is fed to `exec' or
> > whatever. simple question: what is supposed to happen and
> > how do I use `dmenu' sensibly?
>
> have you edited dmenu_run? how do you call dmenu_run in dwm config.h?
>

I'm mostly using 4.7 right now and there (contrary to what's
in the repository) is no `dmenu_run'. rather, `mod1-p' has
it's default binding, namely essentially (deleting the color
settings stuff):

"exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu` && exec $exe"

I confess guilty of not having looked at the source code
before posting, but it seems that the above actually should
do what I expected: (attempt to) execute the selection.
but, e.g., selecting `gv' and hitting return has no visible
consequences. using the above binding in a shell yields
correct behaviour, though.

so I repeat my question: might the problem have to do with
the BUGS section of the `dwm' manpage (I seee this 'EOF'
at the r.h.s. of the statusbar)?

joerg
Received on Fri Mar 07 2008 - 16:40:22 UTC