On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:11:33PM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > On 3/7/08, Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was expecting that the selected entry is fed to `exec' or > > whatever. simple question: what is supposed to happen and > > how do I use `dmenu' sensibly? > > have you edited dmenu_run? how do you call dmenu_run in dwm config.h? >
I'm mostly using 4.7 right now and there (contrary to what's in the repository) is no `dmenu_run'. rather, `mod1-p' has it's default binding, namely essentially (deleting the color settings stuff): "exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu` && exec $exe" I confess guilty of not having looked at the source code before posting, but it seems that the above actually should do what I expected: (attempt to) execute the selection. but, e.g., selecting `gv' and hitting return has no visible consequences. using the above binding in a shell yields correct behaviour, though. so I repeat my question: might the problem have to do with the BUGS section of the `dwm' manpage (I seee this 'EOF' at the r.h.s. of the statusbar)? joerg
