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ThePacman

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Registered: 2013-09-19

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[SOLVED] dmenu not working in i3

I decided to give i3 a try, but pressing $mod+d doesn't do anything.
Running dmenu-desktop from a terminal gives me:

open2: exec of dmenu -i failed at /usr/bin/i3-dmenu-desktop line 315.
Running dmenu failed. Is dmenu installed at all? Try running dmenu -v

There is no binary called dmenu, but running i3-dmenu-desktop -v just printed 'dmenu-desktop 1.5 © 2012-2013 Michael Stapelberg'.

What do I need to do to get dmenu working?

Last edited by ThePacman (2014-10-10 13:54:07)

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ANOKNUSA

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Re: [SOLVED] dmenu not working in i3

Is dmenu installed at all?

There is no binary called dmenu...

Interesting....

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ThePacman

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Re: [SOLVED] dmenu not working in i3

I installed the whole i3 group, and the wiki doesn't seem to mention any other necessary packages..

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bstaletic

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Re: [SOLVED] dmenu not working in i3

dmenu is not in i3 group, and also isn't necessary for i3 to work. Until recently I used i3 without dmenu. Install it and it will work.

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teateawhy

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Re: [SOLVED] dmenu not working in i3

Install the package 'dmenu' from community, or if you want better fonts 'dmenu-xft' from AUR.

ThePacman

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Re: [SOLVED] dmenu not working in i3

Thanks! pacman -S dmenu fixed it!

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