* James Pearson <[email protected]> [100722 13:14]: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Tim Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: <..> > > What's dmenu? > > > > Dmenu[0] is a simple application launcher. Think Gnome-Do or Quicksilver, > but faster, uglier, and only searching things in your $PATH. Mine looks > like [1]. > > Actually, I use Yeganesh[2], which is a wrapper around dmenu that remembers > what I tend to use. Specifically, I have > menu = "exec `dmenu_path | yeganesh`" > and > globalkeys = awful.util.table.join( > ... > awful.key({ modkey, }, "q", function () > awful.util.spawn_with_shell(menu) end), > which launches the menu when I press caps+q (as caps is rebound to mod4, and > q is convienently nearby). I bound Super_L to the windoze key (3rd to left of spacebar). I bound caps to Control_L. I use control-key combos extensively in vim/insert/mode and in emacs. I've been using Super-key combos for window-manager functions on KDE and gnome for years now...
> But I think I may be getting a bit off topic. :) feel free to, this whole `awesome' approach is right up my alley. > [0]: http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ > [1]: http://i.imgur.com/2EcKj.png > [2]: http://dmwit.com/yeganesh/ Thanks! (ps I tried to compile dmenu, ubuntu doesn't have the X11 development libraries, so will have to install them <sigh> I miss my slackware. So little time, so much fun....) -- Tim tim at johnsons-web.com or akwebsoft.com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
