Regarding "if I want to use rofi some day, I just change the calls in my scripts": Just set an alias like dmenu='rofi -dmenu ...', I just use for quite some time now. No need to change any scripts. Theme and all that stuff for rofi is configured via Xresources.
The concept of dmenu is amazing. and the many other script menus like fzf takes the same input. makes it very powerful. Mean you can use your script both in the terminal or in X11/Wayland.
How do you enable borders in lf ? I've been trying to do that for a while now. I've watched your video on lf but you didn't mention how you got the borders.
I have a document-viewer script which is essentially, find ~/Documents | dmenu | xargs xdg-open (plus some options). The fuzzy matching patch is basically essential for this so I don't have to type out the full file paths each time. In fact, I'm so used to it that now I use contractions that match the names of programs and files I open frequently, for example Firefox -> frx.
I still have dmenu installed, but I mainly use rofi now. The only reason I do is because with rofi, it'll detect when a program is terminal based and open it in a terminal, such as with ranger. With dmenu you gotta manually tell it to run in a terminal. As far as I know there isn't a automatic way to just have dmenu do this by itself.
@Kartikey Kushwaha Haven't touched the configuration. Haven't even changed the color scheme. I wonder why it's not working for you. The only terminal program I open with rofi though is ranger typically.
It looks like the description of the 'highpriority' patch is wrong. It doesn't automatically sort search results. You manually make a list of commands that should be prioritized over others.
I use dmenu for all scripts except for emoji selection script, there I user Rofi. Rofi out of the box support unicode emojis in color. Actually, dmenu is one of the tools which attracted me to Linux.
@Nimai It is not and it requires addition library in the system for this which is obsolete. And even in this case dmenu shows emojis in a quite ugly way.
Hello, I'm a Linux noob and just started using Linux Manjaro. When I open pamac-manager with dmenu it throws an error "Authentication failed" when I try to install something. I get that it's probably not a dmenu specific problem, but any help would be appreciated. I first installed Manjaro KDE, but then switched to a tiling manager called bspwm. Haven't noticed many issues with starting apps with dmenu outside of pamac-manager. Is there some boilerplate code I missed/permissions I haven't set (haven't set any except for some of my shell scripts)?
hmm. That 'highpriority' patch. Should rather prioritize _most used_ commands. The 'smex' 【execute-extended-command】 improvement Emacs package has that feature, along with fuzzy matching, and just pressing Enter to run the foremost command (Fantastic).
ROFI do fit in with the Ubuntu colors, they both look a little like someone had taken a dump ... but this is a plus, this make people learn to theme fast, well it also keep people away from linux, just look at Ubuntu ,,, noone can like the colors unless there got drop on there head to many times
The problem with dmenu (or any suckless program) is, that if you write scripts and want to share them, you never know if the other guy patched anything into it. That is one advantage of rofi over dmenu, I ccan be sure about the features I am using in the launcher. And from my personal experience the standard dmenu does not display colored emojis, regardless of the font and some emojis aren't displayed at all. While rofi does it correct. And scrolling down with such entries in the list, dmenu gets sluggish as hell and there is very high input lag (seconds at extreme cases). Probably this can be patched in some way, but when I share my script using dmenu, I can't count on it.
I am Indian and he is probably Indian. In thumbnail, and even in videos, you look like a muslim (thats just a stereotype that people with long beards are muslims) (well thats not jsut a steretype, most of the muslims keep long beards) and "allahu akbar" is used to greet muslims (and in between muslims). by placing a question mark after allahu akbar, he was just asking if you are muslim but know you are not. you are a christian, right? @Brodie Robertson
Regarding "if I want to use rofi some day, I just change the calls in my scripts": Just set an alias like dmenu='rofi -dmenu ...', I just use for quite some time now. No need to change any scripts. Theme and all that stuff for rofi is configured via Xresources.
Dmenu is an extremely versatile and moddable tool, it can be used for managing I / O within bash scripts and integrates perfectly
The concept of dmenu is amazing. and the many other script menus like fzf takes the same input. makes it very powerful.
Mean you can use your script both in the terminal or in X11/Wayland.
How do you enable borders in lf ? I've been trying to do that for a while now. I've watched your video on lf but you didn't mention how you got the borders.
lfrc:
set drawbox true
I have a document-viewer script which is essentially,
find ~/Documents | dmenu | xargs xdg-open
(plus some options).
The fuzzy matching patch is basically essential for this so I don't have to type out the full file paths each time.
In fact, I'm so used to it that now I use contractions that match the names of programs and files I open frequently, for example Firefox -> frx.
I still have dmenu installed, but I mainly use rofi now. The only reason I do is because with rofi, it'll detect when a program is terminal based and open it in a terminal, such as with ranger. With dmenu you gotta manually tell it to run in a terminal. As far as I know there isn't a automatic way to just have dmenu do this by itself.
The dmenu launcher script is a very lazy implementation, it wouldn't bee too difficult to write your own though
@Kartikey Kushwaha
Haven't touched the configuration. Haven't even changed the color scheme. I wonder why it's not working for you. The only terminal program I open with rofi though is ranger typically.
Hello, how can I open st-terminal maximized ?? I have the anysize patch.
I tried so hard to find xpanel didnt find it.
It looks like the description of the 'highpriority' patch is wrong.
It doesn't automatically sort search results. You manually make a list of commands that should be prioritized over others.
I might have phrased it wrong but the description is correct on the website last I checked
the only patch i really made, off the tops of my head, is the makefile, to "install" dmenu scripts in order to use dmenu as a pseudo terminal :p
That's an interesting use
great video.
My rofi is a bit slow, looking to replace it with dmenu for launching .desktop files.
I use dmenu for all scripts except for emoji selection script, there I user Rofi. Rofi out of the box support unicode emojis in color.
Actually, dmenu is one of the tools which attracted me to Linux.
I should set an emoji picker or go and download someone else's
@Nimai It is not and it requires addition library in the system for this which is obsolete. And even in this case dmenu shows emojis in a quite ugly way.
Hello, I'm a Linux noob and just started using Linux Manjaro. When I open pamac-manager with dmenu it throws an error "Authentication failed" when I try to install something.
I get that it's probably not a dmenu specific problem, but any help would be appreciated.
I first installed Manjaro KDE, but then switched to a tiling manager called bspwm. Haven't noticed many issues with starting apps with dmenu outside of pamac-manager. Is there some boilerplate code I missed/permissions I haven't set (haven't set any except for some of my shell scripts)?
hmm. That 'highpriority' patch.
Should rather prioritize _most used_ commands.
The 'smex' 【execute-extended-command】 improvement Emacs package has that feature, along with fuzzy matching, and just pressing Enter to run the foremost command (Fantastic).
Dmenu is the only suckless program I use exactly because it's in the standard repos and you don't have to patch it.
Yeah it's perfectly usable from the repos
Other Boys - simping for girls
Our legend brodie - simping for dmenu
I ran dmenu when I started with a wm, now I switched to Rofi for ease of configurability and themeing
I've seen some really impressive Rofi themes where it doesn't even look like the same program
ROFI do fit in with the Ubuntu colors, they both look a little like someone had taken a dump ... but this is a plus, this make people learn to theme fast, well it also keep people away from linux, just look at Ubuntu ,,, noone can like the colors unless there got drop on there head to many times
The problem with dmenu (or any suckless program) is, that if you write scripts and want to share them, you never know if the other guy patched anything into it. That is one advantage of rofi over dmenu, I ccan be sure about the features I am using in the launcher.
And from my personal experience the standard dmenu does not display colored emojis, regardless of the font and some emojis aren't displayed at all. While rofi does it correct. And scrolling down with such entries in the list, dmenu gets sluggish as hell and there is very high input lag (seconds at extreme cases). Probably this can be patched in some way, but when I share my script using dmenu, I can't count on it.
Stumpwm '/bin/sh -c' gang
never actually used dmenu, always went with rofi
though when using they're practically the same
Rofi has a lot more room for aesthetic customization
@@BrodieRobertson yeah I remember checking out all the themes, it was quite nice
It'll be fun to play around with it again once my new laptop arrives
"Install dmenu from repos" lol,
Sometimes I just need a launcher
@@BrodieRobertson how do people live without the fuzzy search???
That thumbnail :)
Allahu Akbar?
I have no idea what you're on about
I am Indian and he is probably Indian. In thumbnail, and even in videos, you look like a muslim (thats just a stereotype that people with long beards are muslims) (well thats not jsut a steretype, most of the muslims keep long beards) and "allahu akbar" is used to greet muslims (and in between muslims).
by placing a question mark after allahu akbar, he was just asking if you are muslim but know you are not. you are a christian, right?
@Brodie Robertson
I used to use dmenu until I switched to rofi.
Rofi gang
Speed is the only reson to run dmenu
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oh hi :)
Rofi is like dmenu but it SUCKS LESS.