[dwm] Getting a List of Installed Applications in System

2008-10-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I recently introduced my friend to DWM. He was using KDE before that. He was very happy and surprised about the speed of DWM. Now, the question he had was is there some sort of application menu that lists all the installed apps? Like the kicker for KDE or its similar GNOME/Fluxbox

Re: [dwm] Getting a List of Installed Applications in System

2008-10-24 Thread Niki Yoshiuchi
I haven't tried this personally, but it might be possible the replace the window manager that KDE uses with DWM. I did something similar for a short time with XFCE, where I replaced the default window manager with Xmonad. The xmonad website has some documentation on doing this, you might be able

Re: [dwm] Getting a List of Installed Applications in System

2008-10-24 Thread Gabriel Laskar
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, the question he had was is there some sort of application menu that lists all the installed apps? Like the kicker for KDE or its similar GNOME/Fluxbox counterpart? You can use dmenu[1] [1] :

Re: [dwm] Getting a List of Installed Applications in System

2008-10-24 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Mod1-p will show all executables in the path. 2008/10/24 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey guys, I recently introduced my friend to DWM. He was using KDE before that. He was very happy and surprised about the speed of DWM. Now, the question he had was is there some sort of

Re: [dwm] Getting a List of Installed Applications in System

2008-10-24 Thread v4hn
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:28:03AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, I recently introduced my friend to DWM. He was using KDE before that. He was very happy and surprised about the speed of DWM. Now, the question he had was is there some sort of application menu that lists all the

Re: [dwm] Getting a List of Installed Applications in System

2008-10-24 Thread Damjan Vrencur
On Friday 24 of October 2008 17:28:03 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, I recently introduced my friend to DWM. He was using KDE before that. He was very happy and surprised about the speed of DWM. Now, the question he had was is there some sort of application menu that lists all the

Re: [dwm] Getting a List of Installed Applications in System

2008-10-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:29:49 +0200 pancake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dmenu? dzen? you should prepare this list by yourself or by just parsing the .desktop files I will take a look at dzen. You're right, I could probably write a custom script to parse all the .desktop files. Thanks!

Re: [dwm] Getting a List of Installed Applications in System

2008-10-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
In my repository it is still present a debdmenu script, which uses debian menu system with dmenu. I wrote it quite a time ago and I'm not using it. I have even forgoten that it exists but your mail reminded me. :-) Feel free to use and improve it. Here is how to get it:

Re: [dwm] [dvtm] Status bar script

2008-10-24 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 07:31:07PM +0200, Claudio M. Alessi wrote: Hi to all dvtm users! Some time ago i wrote a small shell script[0] which helps to generate a little status bar to be used mainly with dvtm. It use largely UTF-8 and probably you will need to fix some path (about /proc/acpi

Re: [dwm] heirarchical bin menu on category

2008-10-24 Thread carmen r
Something like a categorical browser that shows all the office apps, system apps, etc. would be perfect for his needs. i wrote a script to create such a tree: http://repo.or.cz/w/element.git?a=blob;f=ruby/U/portage.rb; it depends on other code in the repo - should be trivial to rewrite in

[dwm] Can dwm ignore tray utilities out of the box?

2008-10-24 Thread Thayer Williams
Alright, so here goes my silly newb post #1... Is it possible to run a tray utility, such as trayer or stalonetray, and have dwm ignore it completely? I've tried various tray settings and I also found what I thought was a relevant snippet from a recent (v5.2) config.h. It mentioned an extended

[dwm] Re: Can dwm ignore tray utilities out of the box?

2008-10-24 Thread Thayer Williams
nOn Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Thayer Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright, so here goes my silly newb post #1... Is it possible to run a tray utility, such as trayer or stalonetray, and have dwm ignore it completely? I've tried various tray settings Err, the extended rules were