Hi,

On 21.03.2013 14:34, fREW Schmidt wrote:
> I use dmenu, like I'm sure many of you do as well.  When I run dmenu
> from the console it starts immediately.  When I run it from awesome
> there is a brief (maybe 50-75ms?) that means I can't just start
> typing, the first key I press tends to get lost.

Since I normally don't use dmenu, I did some cheap hack: I started bash -c
'dmenu < /etc/fstab' through my local promptbox equivalent. The result feels
pretty instant to me. I tried pressing the enter key twice quickly and the
second key press always closed dmenu.

Perhaps you and others could try the same? Once with dmenu_path and again with
something like the above?

(I also tried to slow this down by causing disk I/O:
 $ echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
After this, I managed to press enter fast enough so that dmenu didn't get the
keypress, but this still feels quite fast.)

Cheers,
Uli
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