On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 07:05:30PM +0300, Alexander Polakov wrote: > * 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
interactively I use tcsh (i.e. SHELL is set to this, too), but dwm is started from within .xinitrc which has `#!/bin/sh' in the first line, so is executed as bourne shell script. that should do, right? > > > 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 mmh. anyone using `dwm' with MacOS without this problem? >
