* Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080307 19:00]: > 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. >
what shell are you using? try starting dwm like this SHELL=/bin/sh dwm > 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)? no -- Alexander Polakov | http://polachok.livejournal.com
