[dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

2008-03-07 Thread Pieter Verberne
Hi all, Dmenu automatically makes a list of executables which are in my $PATH. I think this is pretty useless. Even CLI apps and apps I never use are in the list. I like to make my own .dmenu_cache. So dmenu doesn't have to update the list anymore. This could make dmenu a bit smaller. Is someone

Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

2008-03-07 Thread Enno Gottox Boland
this is not be done by dmenu but by dmenu_path. This is a simple shellscript. 2008/3/7, Pieter Verberne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Dmenu automatically makes a list of executables which are in my $PATH. I think this is pretty useless. Even CLI apps and apps I never use are in the list. I

Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

2008-03-07 Thread Antoni GrzymaƂa
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:14:59 +0100, Enno Gottox Boland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is not be done by dmenu but by dmenu_path. This is a simple Yes, dmenu is totally dumb in that respect, it just shows what you feed to it. Try running `echo -e ls\npwd\nwhoami | dmenu` from a shell.

Re: [dwm] recent changes

2008-03-07 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
On 3/7/08, pancake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * If we change these #defines to integer variables we will be able to write external commands to swap master and slave area between two monitors, join both areas, manage setmwfact or creating mixed layouts. And everything without touching the core

Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

2008-03-07 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:56:53AM +0100, Antoni Grzyma??a wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:14:59 +0100, Enno Gottox Boland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is not be done by dmenu but by dmenu_path. This is a simple Yes, dmenu is totally dumb in that respect, it just shows what you feed to

Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

2008-03-07 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
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?

Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

2008-03-07 Thread mikshaw
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? dmenu simply sends the selected text to stdout. It is up to you (or your script) to decide what to do with that text. This gives you much

Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

2008-03-07 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
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

Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

2008-03-07 Thread Alexander Polakov
* 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

Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

2008-03-07 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
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

Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

2008-03-07 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
On 3/7/08, Joerg van den Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? apparently not with tcsh you need

Re: [dwm] and now for something completely different...

2008-03-07 Thread Chris (Ducky) Chapin
Ritesh Kumar wrote: I would like to know how diverse are the people on the list in terms of the actual layouts and dwm features they use... Versions: Only 4.7. I tend to stick to stable/latest official releases unless something I *really* need is in a dev tree/snapshot. Patches: Just my