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cyclon3
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Joined: 09 Nov 2003
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Location: Aachen
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 Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:34 am Post subject: [howto] custom menu in dwm |
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why?
some months ago, i fell in love with dwm. i customized my config and added shortcuts for my most used programs.
but sometimes i forgot a command don't use that often. i wished a menu like the fluxbox-menu in such moments.
so i decided to write a script which uses dmenu (comes with dwm) and it ended up very very simple.
what you need!
create a dir e.g. $HOME/.menu.
think of categories for your programs you want to have:
e.g.:
- Mail
- Video
- Audio
..an the order of them.
create your category with the programs!
e.g. "Mail" should be the first category, then create a file in your dir called "01_Mail".
the file consists of the program's names and its commands:
Description,command
e.g.:
~/.menu/01_Mail:
| Code: | Mozilla Thunderbird,thunderbird
Mutt,mrxvt -e mutt
get my mails!,mrxvt -e getmail |
...
the script!
menu.sh
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
menudir=$HOME/".menu"
subname=$(ls $menudir | cut -d "_" -f 2 | dmenu)
sub=$(ls $menudir | grep $subname)
exename=$(cat $menudir/$sub | cut -d "," -f 1 | dmenu)
exe=$(cat $menudir/$sub | grep $exename | cut -d "," -f 2)
exec $exe |
screenshot, showing the config and the dir
and that's it! now you can execute the script and make a shortcut for it 
ps: sorry for my bad english! |
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sleipner
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Joined: 13 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: |
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this is great.. thanks for sharing!
i didn't like categories though so i fixed your script to more my likings
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#!/bin/bash
exename=$(cat "$@" | cut -d "," -f 1 | dmenu)
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
exe=$(cat "$@" | grep "$exename" | cut -d "," -f 2)
exec $exe
fi
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there was few problems tho..
if you close dmenu with escape it launches first application from list. to fix either check return value of dmenu or that exename isn't empty.
and if exename contains spaces, grep wont work without quotes on exename. |
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nenemsis5
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Joined: 23 Oct 2007
Posts: 72
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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greate
thx |
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