[SOLVED] Disable a command in Linux

erfanjoker · 2020-12-25 17:16:09

Hi, I know the question may seem silly and maybe an XY Problem, but since im using dmenu to launch chromium, when i start typing its first result is "chromedriver" and the second one is "chromium" so i always have to choose second one, or completely type the name

Since dmenu looks for commands, and commands are binaries in directories we specify in profile file, is there anyway i can disable "chromedriver" command ?

^^>>> which chromedriver                                                                              (127) 20:40:23 
/usr/bin/chromedriver

It is included in chromium package and located its binary in /usr/bin so it gets detected as usual command

Is there anyway to prevent this specific binary to be counted as command ?
Or at least is there anyway to exclude this entry in dmenu_run results ?

Last edited by erfanjoker (2020-12-25 23:37:55)

flyingscorpio · 2020-12-25 18:01:12

alias it to chromium ?

jasonwryan · 2020-12-25 18:27:05

If you bothered to actually use chromium to google your issue, you would find any number of threads, including on thee boards, descrbing how to remove items from dmenu.

Stop being such a help vampire.

erfanjoker · 2020-12-25 18:27:15

flyingscorpio wrote:

alias it to chromium ?

It could be, but not a good solution since its awkward to type chromedriver and get chromium running

tucuxi · 2020-12-25 19:20:27

Take a look at /usr/bin/{dmenu_path,dmenu_run}. All dmenu_run does is pipe ~/.cache/dmenu_run, which in turn is prepared by dmenu_path, into dmenu.

You can easily write your own version of dmenu_run that filters out files you are not interested in.

CarbonChauvinist · 2020-12-25 19:36:10

http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/highpriority/

Last edited by CarbonChauvinist (2020-12-25 20:24:08)

erfanjoker · 2020-12-25 23:37:37

tucuxi wrote:

Take a look at /usr/bin/{dmenu_path,dmenu_run}. All dmenu_run does is pipe ~/.cache/dmenu_run, which in turn is prepared by dmenu_path, into dmenu.
You can easily write your own version of dmenu_run that filters out files you are not interested in.

Thanks a lot for explanation.

CarbonChauvinist wrote:

http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/highpriority/

Thanks, it did the trick

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[SOLVED] Disable a command in Linux

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