Hi there,
Just replaced my hotkey to dmenu_run to i3-dmenu-desktop, as it for
sure is more useful. In my experience, starting the "["-command from
dmenu_run retains bad karma at least until the next reboot.
Maybe it would better to not name it after our beloved window
manager, as, imho, it sucks less than dmenu_run. Why not try
and get it distributed from over there?
Cheers,
joepd
On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:10:38 +0100
Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have written a script which extracts the “Name” key from .desktop
> files, asks you to make a choice by starting dmenu, then runs the
> chosen application via i3.
>
> You can read more about it in its documentation at
> http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3/tree/contrib/i3-dmenu-desktop?h=next#n375
>
> From the commit message:
>
> See "pod2man --utf8 contrib/i3-dmenu-desktop | man /dev/stdin" for
> documentation. Use a line like this in your i3 config file:
> bindsym Mod1+p exec --no-startup-id
> ~/i3/contrib/i3-dmenu-desktop
>
> I would love to hear your comments about this.
> Do you find it useful or not, and why?
>
> I am toying with shipping this with i3 (as in: installing it on the
> system so that it ends up in packages) and making it the default
> instead of just using dmenu_run. Thoughts?
>
