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kramerxiita

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Registered: 2008-02-14

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Gmrun alternative

I find this program yesterday, and share.

http://code.google.com/p/grun/

AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14769

Good alternative for Gmrun.

kramerxiita

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Registered: 2008-02-14

Posts: 89

Re: Gmrun alternative

Another alternative

Gexec

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14770

wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Gmrun alternative

I'm using gmrun, could you please tell me what's better about these alternatives?

mrcold

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Registered: 2008-01-24

Posts: 150

Re: Gmrun alternative

I'm using gmrun, could you please tell me what's better about these alternatives?

what he said

oliwer

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From: Paris

Registered: 2007-06-30

Posts: 153

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Re: Gmrun alternative

This thread lacks a features comparison.

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dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Gmrun alternative

dmenu > *

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wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Gmrun alternative

I disagree. I use dmenu, too, but it lacks on flexibility.

With gmrun, I can execute e.g. leafpad ~/doc/file.txt and I have my typing environment. With dmenu I have to use the horrible file-open dialog after starting the application.

Therefore are dmenu + gmrun in my eyes a fast and flexible combination.

dolby

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Re: Gmrun alternative

thats cause you exec dmenu the wrong way... you can pass arguments to dmenu just like gmrun

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rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: Gmrun alternative

I disagree. I use dmenu, too, but it lacks on flexibility.

With gmrun, I can execute e.g. leafpad ~/doc/file.txt and I have my typing environment. With dmenu I have to use the horrible file-open dialog after starting the application.

Therefore are dmenu + gmrun in my eyes a fast and flexible combination.

dolby is correct, in gmrun you would type "leafpad ~/doc/file.txt" and it would open leafpad with that file open. in dmenu you do the exact same thing.  in fact, dmenu is much more flexible, because it doesnt have to be used to launch programs, but that is another discussion.

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wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Gmrun alternative

Hey, thanks a lot for pointing this out to me. I (obviously) didn't know that.

rson451: Can you point me to resources for information about other usage cases for dmenu?

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Gmrun alternative

Can dmenu browse through the history of used commands?

andywxy

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From: Winnipeg, Canada

Registered: 2007-09-27

Posts: 36

Re: Gmrun alternative

Hey, thanks a lot for pointing this out to me. I (obviously) didn't know that.

rson451: Can you point me to resources for information about other usage cases for dmenu?

+1 this

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: Gmrun alternative

Hey, thanks a lot for pointing this out to me. I (obviously) didn't know that.

rson451: Can you point me to resources for information about other usage cases for dmenu?

What about this two:

Search for album in mpd "database" and play the whole album. Nice to be bound to a media-key...

[sigi@arch ~]$ cat sonstiges/scripte/mpcalbum.sh 
#!/bin/bash
ALBUMTITLE=`mpc listall | awk -F / '{print $2 " - " $3}' | grep -v mp3 | uniq | sort -f | dmenu -b -i -nb "#000" -nf "#7af" -sb "#000" -sf "#bdf" | sed -e 's#\ \-\ #\/#'`
mpc listall | grep "$ALBUMTITLE" > .mpdnewlist_tmp
mpc clear
j=`wc -l .mpdnewlist_tmp | awk '{print $1}'`
J=`echo $j+1 | bc`
for ((i=1; i<J; i++)) ; do 
    mpc add "`sed -n "${i}p" .mpdnewlist_tmp`" > /dev/null
done
mpc play 1
mpc random off
rm .mpdnewlist_tmp

Add a single song to the playlist and play it:

[sigi@arch ~]$ cat sonstiges/scripte/addsong.sh 
#!/bin/bash
mpc listall | dmenu -b -i -nb "#000" -nf "#7af" -sb "#000" -sf "#bdf" | mpc add - ; mpc play `mpc | sed -n '2,2p' | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -d "/" -f 2`

Cheers Sigi

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rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: Gmrun alternative

@all:  i don't want to hijack this thread.  if you want to know more uses for dmenu, read up on pipe menus.  dmenu takes any text piped into it and creates a menu.  for the history example, "$(cat ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq | dmenu )" creates a menu of everything unique command in your  (bash)history and will execute it upon selection.  the possibilities are endless.

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