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bala451987

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Registered: 2025-01-22

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Dmenu Not Displaying Vertically in XFCE – Need Help Troubleshooting

I've successfully installed bspwm and applied patches to dmenu to center it. However, I'm trying to make dmenu display in full vertical mode. I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csDWr82O73k, but dmenu still appears horizontally, not vertically as expected.

Right now, I'm testing dmenu in an XFCE environment, not within bspwm. How can I troubleshoot this and figure out why dmenu isn’t displaying vertically?

I found this command run in termianl:

ps -e | dmenu -l 10

it comes vertically but i don't find programs installed like Kdenlive, at the same time through horizontal view, yes it appears in the result.

Last edited by bala451987 (2025-05-30 05:57:13)

seth

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Re: Dmenu Not Displaying Vertically in XFCE – Need Help Troubleshooting

I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/

I found this command run in termianl:

And what does that command do?
(No, I know that - I want you to think about it for a moment)

i don't find programs installed like Kdenlive

See https://man.archlinux.org/man/dmenu.1 and correlate that w/ what you know so far and apply the approach you googled up to dmenu_run.

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