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Meragone

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2020-10-31

Posts: 19

dmenu won't run vifm

vifm appears in dmenu, but selecting it does nothing
I can open vifm directly in the terminal and it opens

Sending the output of dmenu_run to a file doesn't give anything
Symlinking bash instead of dash to sh doesn't do anything

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i use doas btw

keltek

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Registered: 2017-01-08

Posts: 53

Re: dmenu won't run vifm

To my knowledge, dmenu can't run terminal programs. you can likely create a script or something equivalent that will open a terminal with vifm instead of a shell but that seems like the extent of it.

Meragone

Member

From: Serbia

Registered: 2020-10-31

Posts: 19

Re: dmenu won't run vifm

Oh, well. I could've sworn I ran ncdu (ncurses program) through dmenu at one point, lmao. My apologies for littering the board

I just added a command to dwm's config header, Super+P runs dmenu as usual, but Super+Shift+P runs:

termite -e $(dmenu_path | dmenu)

That's intentionally reminiscent of rofi, where you have to press Shift+Enter to run something in a terminal.

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i use doas btw