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#1 2008-06-21 00:38:55
- leo2501
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[SOLVED] From wmii to dwm. problem with dmenu
Hi everybody! i made the happy (for me) decision to try dwm when i realize that it's wmii "little brother" as the homepage says, and i need to say that i feel at home for now, but im having two primary "problems" im sure it's nothing for you guys =P
1) i modified the config.h file with no trouble, (installed via abs, and modify the PKGBUILD for the latest version 5.0.1) but dmenu is not working, when i hit the ALT+p for dmenu nothing happend
2) i have two keybindings (ALT+z & ALT+x) to raise and lower the pcm volume, and i use them in wmii perfectly, but don't know how to make them work in dwm
my config.h:
/* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */
/* appearance */
static const char font[] = "-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*";
static const char normbordercolor[] = "#111111";
static const char normbgcolor[] = "#000000";
static const char normfgcolor[] = "#ffffff";
static const char selbordercolor[] = "#777777";
static const char selbgcolor[] = "#444444";
static const char selfgcolor[] = "#ffffff";
static uint borderpx = 1; /* border pixel of windows */
static uint snap = 50; /* snap pixel */
static Bool showbar = True; /* False means no bar */
static Bool topbar = False; /* False means bottom bar */
#ifdef XINERAMA
static uint xidx = 0; /* Xinerama screen index to use */
#endif
/* tagging */
static const char tags[][MAXTAGLEN] = { "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9" };
static Rule rules[] = {
/* class instance title tags mask isfloating */
{ "Gimp", NULL, NULL, 0, True },
{ "pidgin", NULL, NULL, 0, True },
{ "mplayer", NULL, NULL, 0, True },
{ "vlc", NULL, NULL, 0, True },
{ "xine", NULL, NULL, 0, True },
{ "xmms", NULL, NULL, 0, True },
{ "gkrellm", NULL, NULL, 0, True },
};
/* layout(s) */
static float mfact = 0.55;
static Bool resizehints = True; /* False means respect size hints in tiled resizals */
static Layout layouts[] = {
/* symbol arrange function */
{ "[]=", tile }, /* first entry is default */
{ "><>", NULL }, /* no layout function means floating behavior */
};
/* key definitions */
#define MODKEY Mod1Mask
#define TAGKEYS(KEY,TAG) \
{ MODKEY, KEY, view, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, KEY, toggleview, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, KEY, tag, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, KEY, toggletag, {.ui = 1 << TAG} },
/* helper for spawning shell commands in the pre dwm-5.0 fashion */
#define SHCMD(cmd) { .v = (const char*[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, NULL } }
/* commands */
static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-b", "-fn", font, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };
static const char *termcmd[] = { "urxvt", "-sh", "50", NULL };
static const char *amixcmdu[] = { "amixer -q set PCM 20+", NULL };
static const char *amixcmdd[] = { "amixer -q set PCM 20-", NULL };
static Key keys[] = {
/* modifier key function argument */
{ MODKEY, XK_p, spawn, {.v = dmenucmd } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_Return, spawn, {.v = termcmd } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_z, spawn, {.v = amixcmdd } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_x, spawn, {.v = amixcmdu } },
{ MODKEY, XK_b, togglebar, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_j, focusstack, {.i = +1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_k, focusstack, {.i = -1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_h, setmfact, {.f = -0.05} },
{ MODKEY, XK_l, setmfact, {.f = +0.05} },
{ MODKEY, XK_m, togglemax, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_Return, zoom, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_Tab, view, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_q, killclient, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_space, togglelayout, {0} },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_space, togglefloating, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_0, view, {.ui = ~0 } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_0, tag, {.ui = ~0 } },
TAGKEYS( XK_1, 0)
TAGKEYS( XK_2, 1)
TAGKEYS( XK_3, 2)
TAGKEYS( XK_4, 3)
TAGKEYS( XK_5, 4)
TAGKEYS( XK_6, 5)
TAGKEYS( XK_7, 6)
TAGKEYS( XK_8, 7)
TAGKEYS( XK_9, 8)
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_q, quit, {0} },
};
/* button definitions */
#define TAGBUTTONS(TAG) \
{ TAG, 0, Button1, view, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ TAG, 0, Button3, toggleview, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ TAG, MODKEY, Button1, tag, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ TAG, MODKEY, Button3, toggletag, {.ui = 1 << TAG} },
/* click can be a tag number (starting at 0),
* ClkLtSymbol, ClkStatusText, ClkWinTitle, ClkClientWin, or ClkRootWin */
static Button buttons[] = {
/* click event mask button function argument */
{ ClkLtSymbol, 0, Button1, togglelayout, {0} },
{ ClkLtSymbol, 0, Button3, togglemax, {0} },
{ ClkWinTitle, 0, Button2, zoom, {0} },
{ ClkStatusText, 0, Button2, spawn, {.v = termcmd } },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button1, movemouse, {0} },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button2, togglefloating, {0} },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button3, resizemouse, {0} },
TAGBUTTONS(0)
TAGBUTTONS(1)
TAGBUTTONS(2)
TAGBUTTONS(3)
TAGBUTTONS(4)
TAGBUTTONS(5)
TAGBUTTONS(6)
TAGBUTTONS(7)
TAGBUTTONS(8)
};Thanks!
Last edited by leo2501 (2008-06-21 02:22:34)
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#2 2008-06-21 01:33:47
- peets
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Re: [SOLVED] From wmii to dwm. problem with dmenu
you can use xbindkeys to control your volume. It only works in X, but it's easy to set up.
pacman -S xbindkeys
man xbindkeyshttp://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hot … tions_in_X
Oh, you can use it to run dmenu too.
Last edited by peets (2008-06-21 01:34:22)
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#3 2008-06-21 01:44:54
- leo2501
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Re: [SOLVED] From wmii to dwm. problem with dmenu
but i want to make it work like before 
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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#4 2008-06-21 02:12:25
- vogt
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Re: [SOLVED] From wmii to dwm. problem with dmenu
static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-b", "-fn", font, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL }So you need this dmenu_run script. It's the new dmenu 3.7 (which you have to build from abs, at least for now).
EDIT: it's about time that dmenu came with a script that runs it out of the box.
By the way, it just contains:
#!/bin/sh
exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu ${1+"$@"}` && exec $exe
Last edited by vogt (2008-06-21 02:16:04)
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#5 2008-06-21 02:22:14
- leo2501
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Re: [SOLVED] From wmii to dwm. problem with dmenu
lol... it's all fixed now 
GREAT! i have the volume keys and the dmenu thing make it with abs solve the issue 
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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#6 2008-06-21 04:13:04
- leo2501
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Re: [SOLVED] From wmii to dwm. problem with dmenu
don't understand what happend now, but i recompile dwm with the only change in colors :S and now everytime i run it, press ALT+enter to run the terminal and dwm exits with a segmentation fault :S any idea where to look?
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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