[SOLVED] dmenu question

[superwow]

So, I've been happy on VSIDO for quite some time. Got my millions of keybindings and all kind of productivity shortcuts set up. And along comes this weird lightdm/systemd business and now I am switching things around and being a detective with new setups and whatnot. So the investigating sparked the bug again and this morning I thought well heck I'll just install OB and set up all my old keybindings and menu etc and start a multi-wm system. Yes, that is actually the direction I want to go, as I want to try jwm, awesomewm, and a few others, just for the heck of it.

So, in the standard FB VSIDO install, I have dmenu keybound to control+space. It works flawlessly.

In the OB side of my VSIDO, which I have nicely set up with all kinds of goodnes, my lovely dmenu shows up, but won't search. Type as I may, it never indexes anything.

The problem is obviously one of the PEBCAC variety. So, can someone educate me as to what I have done wrong, or haven't done? In various other systems I have run, a keybinding for dmenu needed to call a dmenu-xxx.sh file that called dmenu. But VSIDO-FB did not, as far as I know. How can I make my dmenu work in VSIDO-OB?

[PackRat]

Please, post your OB key binding.

When running OB, in a terminal, does -

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dmenu_run

work?

[superwow]

PackRat, running dmenu_run from terminal does work.

Here's the keybinding.

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</keybind>
        <keybind key="C-space">
      <action name="Execute">
        <startupnotify>
          <enabled>true</enabled>
          <name>dmenu</name>
        </startupnotify>
        <command>dmenu</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

I'm thinking I should add the "_run" to the dmenu part? Doing so, changing to below:

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</keybind>
        <keybind key="C-space">
      <action name="Execute">
        <startupnotify>
          <enabled>true</enabled>
          <name>dmenu</name>
        </startupnotify>
        <command>dmenu_run</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

and, boom it works. You're the best Packrat!