1 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo # MyMenu
3 eccc9e7a 2018-05-20 omar.polo > A replacement for dmenu, 'cause I was bored
5 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo 
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11 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo ## What?
13 eccc9e7a 2018-05-20 omar.polo This is a replacement for `dmenu(1)`.
15 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo ## Why?
17 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo This was the perfect excuse to learn how to make window with Xlib.
19 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo ## How?
21 b3f35c85 2018-05-18 omar.polo Check out the [manpage](mymenu.1) for further documentation. Check out
22 b3f35c85 2018-05-18 omar.polo also the [template](Xexample) for the resources.
26 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo ## Dependencies
29 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo - Xinerama (optional)
30 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo For multi-monitor support
31 c9a3bfaa 2018-05-21 omar.polo - Xft (optional)
32 c9a3bfaa 2018-05-21 omar.polo For TrueType (r) font support
33 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo - pkg-config (optional)
34 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo used in the makefile to generate `LIBS` and `CFLAGS` correctly
36 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo ## Build
38 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo As simple as `make` (or `make gnu` if you're using GNU libc). Keep in
39 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo mind that, by default, both Xft and Xinerama are enabled. So, you may
40 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo want to run:
42 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo - `make no_xft` to build without xft support;
43 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo - `make no_xinerama` to build without xinerama support;
44 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo - `make no_xft_xinerama` to build without xinerama *and* no xft support.
46 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo #### ignore case completion / don't have `strcasestr(3)`
48 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo If you want to build without the ignore case completion or on your
49 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo platform `strcasestr(3)` isn't available, you have to update the
50 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo `Makefile` and remove `-DUSE_STRCASESTR`. A simple
51 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo ``` shell
52 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo sed -i.orig 's/-DUSE_STRCASESTR//g' Makefile
54 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo should be enough.
59 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo - Does not run / Hangs
61 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo At the startup mymenu will read `stdin` for a list of item, only
62 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo then it'll display a window. Are you sure that you're passing
63 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo something on standard input?
65 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo - License
67 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo The code is released under GPLv3, but I don't have strong
68 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo preference regard licenses, so if you ask I may release the code
69 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo also under a different license (a free software one of course).
71 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo - Will feature $X be added?
73 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo No. Or maybe Yes. In fact, it depends. Open an issue and let's
74 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo discuss. If it's something that's trivial to achieve in combo with
75 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo other tool maybe is not the case to add it here.
77 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo - Is feature $Y present? What $Z do? How to achieve $W?
79 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo Everything is documented in the man page. To read it, simply execute
80 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo `man -l mymenu.1` or `mandoc mymenu.1 | less` (depending on your
81 9c241438 2018-05-20 omar.polo system the `-l` option may not be present).
85 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo ## TODO
87 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo - Improve UTF8 support
89 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo The whole UTF8 support is still kinda naïve and should definitely
90 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo be improved.
92 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo - Opacity support
94 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo - Command line flags
96 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo At the moment the X Resource Database is the only way to interact
97 be5b89f6 2018-05-18 omar.polo with the graphic appearance of MyMenu.
99 b836b1ec 2018-05-18 omar.polo ## Scripts
101 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo I'm using this script to launch MyMenu with custom item
103 b836b1ec 2018-05-18 omar.polo ``` shell
104 b836b1ec 2018-05-18 omar.polo #!/bin/sh
106 b836b1ec 2018-05-18 omar.polo cat <<EOF | /bin/sh -c "$(mymenu "$@")"
107 b836b1ec 2018-05-18 omar.polo sct 4500
109 b836b1ec 2018-05-18 omar.polo connect ethernet
110 b836b1ec 2018-05-18 omar.polo connect home
111 b836b1ec 2018-05-18 omar.polo connect phone
118 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo You can generate a menu from the `.desktop` file with something like
121 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo ``` shell
122 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo #!/bin/sh
124 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo getname() {
125 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo cat $1 | grep '^Name=' | sed 's/^.*=//'
128 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo getexec() {
129 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo cat $1 | grep '^Exec=' | sed 's/^.*=//'
132 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo desktop_files=`ls /usr/local/share/applications/*.desktop`
135 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo for i in $desktop_files; do
136 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo getname $i
138 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo } | mymenu "$@" | {
139 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo read prgname
140 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo for i in $desktop_files; do
141 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo name=`getname $i`
142 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo if [ "x$prgname" = "x$name" ]; then
143 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo exec `getexec $i`
149 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo or generate a list of executables from `$PATH` like this:
151 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo ``` shell
152 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo #!/bin/sh
154 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo path=`echo $PATH | sed 's/:/ /g'`
157 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo for i in $path; do
158 8880d5e3 2018-05-19 omar.polo ls -F $i | grep '.*\*$' | sed 's/\*//'
160 75faf30e 2018-05-22 omar.polo } | sort -f | /bin/sh -c "$(mymenu "$@")"
163 b836b1ec 2018-05-18 omar.polo Of course you can as well use the `dmenu_path` and `dmenu_run` scripts
164 b836b1ec 2018-05-18 omar.polo that (usually) comes with `dmenu`.
