Re: [dwm] Getting a List of Installed Applications in System

On Friday 24 of October 2008 17:28:03 Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I recently introduced my friend to DWM. He was using KDE before that.
> He was very happy and surprised about the speed of DWM. Now, the
> question he had was is there some sort of application menu that lists
> all the installed apps? Like the kicker for KDE or its similar
> GNOME/Fluxbox counterpart?
>
> I did not have an answer for him...I did a search on aptitude but the
> only thing I found was the debian 'menu' package but I am not sure how
> to use that.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Amit

In my repository it is still present a debdmenu script, which uses debian menu
system with dmenu. I wrote it quite a time ago and I'm not using it. I have
even forgoten that it exists but your mail reminded me. :-)

Feel free to use and improve it. Here is how to get it:
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To use our repository, add following lines to the end of
the /etc/apt/sources.list file

# LMMRI repository
deb http://lmmri.fri.uni-lj.si/apt/public yodude main contrib non-free
deb-src http://lmmri.fri.uni-lj.si/apt/public yodude main contrib non-free
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Here is the public key for this repository:
http://lmmri.fri.uni-lj.si/damjan/docs/pubkey_lmmri.gpg
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Then just apt-get install debdmenu

Regards,

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 Damjan Vrenčur | http://damjanvrencur.blogspot.com | GPG key: C6A3146F