Hi Eric, Thanks for sharing! I recently thought about creating a similar tool that would enhance dex (https://github.com/jceb/dex) which I use to autostart programs during dwm launch. del works graet for me!
The one thing I noticed is that I couldn't get del to work at first because it was messing the .del file in $HOME. del: open: /home/jceb/.del: No such file or directory del: dmenu died with exit status 1 It took a while until I figured out that "del -r" would create the missing file. Jan Christoph On Mon 06-02-2017 23:10 -0800, Eric Pruitt wrote: > I use dmenu to run programs, but I did not like that dmenu_run > included every single program included those without GUIs. I > maintained a list of programs manually, then I wrote a script to > generate the list based on whether or not a binary linked to GUI > libraries. Recently, I wrote a C program that uses nftw(3) to find > [desktop entry files][1], parses them and adds them to a list saved at > ~/.del by default. The source is here: > https://github.com/ericpruitt/edge/blob/master/utilities/del.c . I > believe it is POSIX compliant, and I was able to compile it on Linux, > OpenBSD and FreeBSD. > > [1]: > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ > > Here's the usage information: > > DEL searches for Freedesktop Desktop Entries, generates a list of > graphical commands and uses dmenu as a front-end so the user can > select a command to execute. > > Exit statuses: > 1 Fatal error encountered. > 2 Non-fatal error encountered. > > 128 The dmenu subprocess was killed by a signal. > > Options: > -h Show this text and exit. > -f PATH Use specified file as the command list. When this is > unspecified, it defaults to ~/.del > -r Search for desktop entries to refresh the command list. > Trailing command line parameters are interpreted as folders to be > searched. Folders on different devices must be explicitly > enumerated because the search will not automatically cross > filesystem boundaries; in terms > of find(1), the search is equivalent to the following: find > $ARGUMENTS -xdev -name '*.desktop' When no paths are given, > "/" is searched by default. A newline-separated list of > programs can be fed to del via stdin to include programs > that do not have desktop entries in the generated launcher > list. The programs must exist in $PATH or they will be > silently ignored. > > When "-r" is not specified, dmenu is launched with the command list > feed into standard input. Trailing command line arguments can be used > to pass flags to dmenu or use a different menu altogether: > > Set the background color of selected text to red: $ del -- -sb > "#ff0000" > > Use rofi in dmenu mode instead of dmenu: $ del rofi -dmenu > > Please let me know what you think. > > Thanks, Eric > -- Jan Christoph Ebersbach I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ - God’s righteousness. Phil 3:9
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