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0 pointsmaximus-decimus3y ago0 comments

How do you use dmenu for your shell script? to launch it? to prompt the user for input while it's running?

Do you have an example of a script you wrote?

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ducktective3y ago

Yes, for creating ad-hoc mini-UIs so the user can select an option. Same with fzf, but it's terminal-bound (rather than X-bound).

The scripts are similar to this one:

https://github.com/debxp/dmenu-scripts/blob/master/dmenu-kil...

maximus-decimusOP3y ago

Thanks, I will definitively use that kill one.

sargstuff3y ago

WASM gawk with html as user input/output more flexible.

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