I have been playing a bit with perl and dmenu and got some nice results :) I have configured my dwm to run dpanel when pressing META+o:
{ MODKEY, XK_o, spawn, "exec perl
~/prg/dpanel.pl" }, \
dpanel is configured in ~/.dpanel.conf or modifying the source code that brings
some wrappers
for dmenu and command executions:
$foo = dmenu(("foo","bar","cow"));
This way if you define a new command you just have to do this in .dpanel.conf:
push @commands, "top";
my $top = "$xterm -e 'top'"
By default (my configuration) provides commands for:
* compose a mail
* handle an agenda (own format (tab separated values with aliases)
* receive mail (fetch mail)
* run url in browser (support for firefox's history autocompletion)
* search in google
* lock x windows
* play music
* run audio mixer
* run ssh command
* enter into a scratchbox shell
* make a screenshot
* take notes
* basic wireless network setup (linux only, plain/wep)
* receive files via obex bluetooth
* enter irc or jabber
* shutdown computer
* ...
Will be really easy to add functionalities like VCARD generation
or alarm scheduling with dzen2 and remind. Feel free to discuss your
patches, ideas, etc...
Have fun!
--pancake
dpanel.pl.gz
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