Hi Jason !

On 05/04/15 10:59 AM, Jason Woofenden wrote:
> Package: rofi
> Version: 0.15.2-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Thanks for packaging rofi!
> 
> I wanted to give it a try, so I installed it with aptitude, and
> took a look at the man page. The man page explains that rofi can be
> run as a daemon (like xbindkeys) or as a one-off, like dmenu.
> 
> I looked over the man-page fairly thoroughly, and I can't see
> anything about how you specify which of these behaviors you would
> like.
> 
> I would like to see explicit indication of:
> 
> 1.    Whether the default is daemon, or one-off.
> 
> 2.    What commandline option(s) activate daemon mode.
> 
> 3.    What commandline option(s) de-activate daemon mode.
> 
> 
> I've, as of yet, had no success getting rofi to do anything that I
> can detect. I've tried some sensible commandlines:
> 
>       rofi
> 
>       rofi --help
> 
>       rofi -dmenu
> 
>       rofi -dmenu -show run
> 
> In all of the above cases, rofi seems to hang, doing nothing (maybe
> it's in daemon mode?)


I fully agree with you that the documentation could be better. I have
been working with upstream to improve this, and a lot of work has been
done already on git: http://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi

> 
> additionally, this command:
> 
>       rofi -h
> 
> Prints the following error:
> 
>       man: /usr/share/man/man1/rofi.1: No such file or directory
> 
> 

This was also fixed upstream, I'll keep in touch with the developer to
upload a new version to Debian soon !


> Thanks!
> 

Thank you for reporting this :)


Cheers

-- 
Jason Pleau


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