I agree with Tony, although I feel there is a place
for all...scripts, aliases, symlinks, etc.
I'd have to say I disagree with Arun's belief about
the purpose of dmenu. As I see it, dmenu is not a
shell replacement or alternative at all. It does not
execute anything. It is instead a tool that can
On 4/7/07, Enno Gottox Boland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dmenu doesn't care avout nasty shell aliases... And shell scripts also
don't care about shell aliases. They are only respected when you type
something in your shell...
I know that. Did you try Ion ? It has a thing similar to dmenu and it
Arun G Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The purpose of dmenu is to execute something instead of
executing it with an ampersand () in the shell imo. And in that case
respecting aliases is a good thing, imho.
Creating scripts in ~/bin/ is just as easy as using the alias
builtin, but you'll have far
What's wrong with dmenu ? The only thing that annoys me is that it doens't
respect my shell aliases. Anybody know any workarounds ?
I tried playin with dmenu_path. But didn't help.
-Arun
dmenu doesn't care avout nasty shell aliases... And shell scripts also
don't care about shell aliases. They are only respected when you type
something in your shell...
2007/4/7, Arun G Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What's wrong with dmenu ? The only thing that annoys me is that it doens't
respect my
Good day.
Am Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:36:11 +0530
schrieb Arun G Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What's wrong with dmenu ?
It doesn't execute on demand.
Sincerely,
Christoph
On 4/7/07, Christoph Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good day.
Am Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:36:11 +0530
schrieb Arun G Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What's wrong with dmenu ?
It doesn't execute on demand.
Assuming you didn't mean this as a joke:
dmenu's purpose is to be a menu which lets you select
On 4/7/07, Tuncer Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure whether one can make a selection and add
some parameter to it by typing in dmenu after selecting the
entry and having the selection with the parameter written
to stdout.
Yes, that is possible. I frequently do things like firtab
There is nothing wrong with dmenu. This is more like using spawn in config.h
of dwm. I just want to point to another similar program, not to throw a flame :)
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:36:11 +0530
Arun G Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's wrong with dmenu ? The only thing that annoys me is that it
I've found this browsing thru freshmeat:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/thinglaunch/
--pancake
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