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kenshis
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:23 pm    Post subject: dmenu howto (standalone program launcher) Reply with quote

dmenu is greet tool for those, who dont use kde or gnome.
I spent a lot of time searching how to use "dmenu". i REALY don understand, why was so hard to put THESE lines to manual or anywhere else
Code:
  exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu` && eval "exec $exe"

or
Code:
  exe=`dmenu < myLinefeedDelimitedListOfFaves` && eval "exec $exe"

To use dmenu , you MUST make script from lines above, and THEN run it.
Hope this help's anybody
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Desktop Environments to Documentation, Tips & Tricks.
Tip/trick moved here.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

except nfc what it is for
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:47 pm    Post subject: Re: dmenu howto (standalone program launcher) Reply with quote

kenshis wrote:
dmenu is greet tool for those, who dont use kde or gnome.
I spent a lot of time searching how to use "dmenu". i REALY don understand, why was so hard to put THESE lines to manual or anywhere else
Code:
  exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu` && eval "exec $exe"

or
Code:
  exe=`dmenu < myLinefeedDelimitedListOfFaves` && eval "exec $exe"

To use dmenu , you MUST make script from lines above, and THEN run it.
Hope this help's anybody


I use the function from wmii which lists all the the executables from your path and sends them to dmenu to for exec, I'll post it when I get back home.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
#!/bin/sh

PROGSFILE=".proglist"

proglist() {
   paths=$(echo "$@" | sed 'y/:/ /')
   ls -lL $paths 2>/dev/null \
      | awk '$1 ~ /^[^d].*x/ && NF > 2 { print $NF }' \
      | sort | uniq
}
proglist $PATH >$PROGSFILE
sh -c  "$(eval dmenu -b <$PROGSFILE)"


put it in a file, make it executable and run it!
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