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mrmonk

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Registered: 2023-10-01

Posts: 13

dmenu wont open many apps?

Hi all

dmenu just doesn't work.
Doesn't open any apps that I try and open
Although if I run directly via cli it opens fine?

Is there a way to see why?
dmenu_run just exits after executed so can't see any output

this is particularly with jetbrains apps such as rider, pstorm, clion, etc

many thanks

Last edited by mrmonk (2025-02-21 13:30:36)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: dmenu wont open many apps?

Did you try to run dmenu_run from an interactive shell?
It's also just a shell script itself, so you can add random debug output or "set -x" (at the top) there and/or redirect those into a file

Since it basically just feeds command into a shell, chances are it's the invocation context and some enfironment variable that applies to your interactive shell only but isn't present in the shell that starts dmenu (window manager shortcut?) so you might also want to dump printenv from dmenu_run and diff that against your interactive shell version.

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