Hi everyone, This is my first time posting here, but I've visited the IRC channel a few times under the nick "minimalist". The dmenu tool that comes with Linux is nice, but using it within Awesome is not convenient, because one can't add handlers and callbacks to the selected items.
This is why I wrote a simple dmenu widget for Awesome, which does 99% of what dmenu does, and also plays well with rc.lua. The repository is: https://github.com/naturalist/awesome-dmenu Please, feel free to fork it and make any improvements you see fit. Cheers, Stefan