Arch Linux

Admiral_Edo

Member

Registered: 2008-04-13

Posts: 6

dmenu lists completes but doens't launch

Just installed dmenu under xmonad.

When i try to launch gtk apps it works but with cli apps nothing happens.

Jansson

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-09-10

Posts: 106

Re: dmenu lists completes but doens't launch

What kind of apps are we talking?

Try to do a "echo 'hello' > ~/jansonsTestMessage" in dmenu and we will know if I'm right.
To start a program within a terminal (so you can interact with it), you have to walk the path of "urxvt -e vim"
When the command is executed the term will die, so another solution would be recuried for commands like "ls".

Hope I made some sense

Admiral_Edo

Member

Registered: 2008-04-13

Posts: 6

Re: dmenu lists completes but doens't launch

Wow thanks.

It works now.

Is there a way not to write the [terminal name] -e command and get the same results?

EDIT: I just realized this is very stupid, if i wanted to execute apps in the terminal i could just do it in the terminal.

Last edited by Admiral_Edo (2008-04-20 13:58:12)