Hi list.
I'm not a proficient C coder but I managed to hack this patch together.
With this, you can set the starting search string to something else then an
empty string.
Dieter
--- dmenu-4.0/dmenu.1 2009-04-18 13:50:04.000000000 +0200
+++ dmenu-4.0-patched/dmenu.1 2009-04-25 19:08:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
.B \-i
makes dmenu match menu entries case insensitively.
.TP
+.B \-d
+set a default value for the search string.
+.TP
.B \-b
defines that dmenu appears at the bottom.
.TP
diff -Naur dmenu-4.0/dmenu.c dmenu-4.0-patched/dmenu.c
--- dmenu-4.0/dmenu.c 2009-04-18 13:50:04.000000000 +0200
+++ dmenu-4.0-patched/dmenu.c 2009-04-25 18:59:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -642,7 +642,6 @@
promptw = textw(prompt);
if(promptw > mw / 5)
promptw = mw / 5;
- text[0] = 0;
match(text);
XMapRaised(dpy, win);
}
@@ -667,6 +666,7 @@
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
unsigned int i;
Bool topbar = True;
+ text[0] = 0;
/* command line args */
for(i = 1; i < argc; i++)
@@ -694,11 +694,14 @@
else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-sf")) {
if(++i < argc) selfgcolor = argv[i];
}
+ else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-d")) {
+ if(++i < argc) strcpy(text, argv[i]);
+ }
else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-v"))
eprint("dmenu-"VERSION", © 2006-2008 dmenu engineers,
see LICENSE for details\n");
else
eprint("usage: dmenu [-i] [-b] [-fn <font>] [-nb
<color>] [-nf <color>]\n"
- " [-p <prompt>] [-sb <color>] [-sf
<color>] [-v]\n");
+ " [-p <prompt>] [-sb <color>] [-sf
<color>] [-d <default>] [-v]\n");
if(!setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") || !XSupportsLocale())
fprintf(stderr, "warning: no locale support\n");
if(!(dpy = XOpenDisplay(NULL)))
