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Re: Invoking an arbitrary command from a window manager



Hello,

On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 07:43:36AM +0000, nia wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 04:13:50AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Is there something I can put in a menu that will allow the user to input desired command line?
> 
> x11/dmenu

Heartily recommended (it also has program name completion). To be more
precise: I added

kbind "X", "exec", "dmenu_run"

to my  .pwm/keys.conf; for twm and friends add the line to

"Run command" f.exec "demnu_run" 

e.g. to
menu "defops" 
{
...
}

	-is


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