yeganesh and lsx

X-dark · 2011-07-26 13:05:51

dmenu 4.4 has dropped dmenu_path in favor of lsx.

I was using

((modm,               xK_p     ), spawn "exe=`dmenu_path | yeganesh` && eval \"exec $exe\"")

to launch yeganesh from Xmonad.

I'm trying to use lsx instead of the now absent dmenu_path without success. For now I'm using dmenu-path-c.

Has anyone managed to use lsx with yeganesh ?

lolilolicon · 2011-07-26 13:28:24

`man lsx'

X-dark · 2011-07-26 13:50:50

Thanks. I haven't thought of looking at the man page!

What I don't know exactly is what was the behavior of dmenu_path. Was it updating a cache (when ?) and returning its content ? In that case lsx alone will be more disk intensive.

An other thing I don't understand: "lsx $PATH" does not work but it seems to be used by dmenu_run that way !

I succeeded to use lsx that way "echo $PATH | sed 's!:! !g' | xargs lsx | yeganesh" . But this is neither elegant nor optimal.

lolilolicon · 2011-07-26 14:18:44

X-dark wrote:

What I don't know exactly is what was the behavior of dmenu_path. Was it updating a cache (when ?) and returning its content ? In that case lsx alone will be more disk intensive.

I don't know what dmenu_path did, but dmenu_run maintains a cache.

X-dark wrote:

An other thing I don't understand: "lsx $PATH" does not work but it seems to be used by dmenu_run that way !

dmenu_run simply calls `lsx $PATH' since it sets IFS to `:'. See bash(1).

You should either just use dmenu_run, or modify dmenu_run to use yeganesh (although I don't know what it is) and use the modified script instead.

X-dark · 2011-07-26 14:26:00

I didn't see the part about IFS. I should have thought about that.

Yes maybe, adapting dmenu_run should be the way.

Yeganesh is a wrapper to dmenu. It sorts results by frequency of usage. Thus you only need to type a few letter to launch the application you launch every day.

Xiong Chiamiov · 2011-09-08 10:18:52

X-dark wrote:

I succeeded to use lsx that way "echo $PATH | sed 's!:! !g' | xargs lsx | yeganesh" . But this is neither elegant nor optimal.

But it works, which is all I needed for the time being; thanks.

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#1 2011-07-26 13:05:51

yeganesh and lsx

#2 2011-07-26 13:28:24

Re: yeganesh and lsx

#3 2011-07-26 13:50:50

Re: yeganesh and lsx

#4 2011-07-26 14:18:44

Re: yeganesh and lsx

#5 2011-07-26 14:26:00

Re: yeganesh and lsx

#6 2011-09-08 10:18:52

Re: yeganesh and lsx

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