suckless-tools [fixed]

[GekkoP]

Updated Elektra this morning, and came in a new version of suckless-tools. Only issue I had was with dwm and dmenu. Basically, couldn't open dmenu from dwm anymore using win_key+p shortcut.

So, after looking at logs, in dwm/config.h I changed this line

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static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-m", dmenumon, "-fn", font, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };

making it looking like this

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static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-fn", font, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };

And now I got my dmenu_run shortcut back working.

[dkeg]

anyone else notice that dmenu seems to now list out processes in pstree differently?

Applications opened through keybindings or menus (how it used to be)

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init
     |
     |
     |__startx_______cwm
     |                         |___browser
     |                         |___urxvt
     |                         |___other stuff
     |
     |____stuff

now and seemingly ofter the update

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init___________________browser
    |___________________urxvt
    |___________________urxvt
    |
    |______startx________cwm
    |                                  |____urxvt (opened from keybinding)
    |                                  |____same
    |
    |____stuff

could just be my ocd, no issues, just curious if anyone else noticed? seend the same? cares :) ?

[GekkoP]

No difference on Elektra, just dist-upgraded.

Sylpheed was opened using dmenu, emacs and tabbed+surf via keybinding.

[dkeg]

hmm, interesting. Will be interesting to look a bit further. Thanks for posting back. FWIW, I am on colin. I look into it tonight so more if I have extra time

[xaos52]

^ Looks like it is init vs system-d making the difference?

[dkeg]

I checked, systemd or init, same difference. I went into buffalo which had not yet updated suckless and pstree displayed the old way.

I'm curious what changed.

[dkeg]

okay, fixed. Could I really be the only one? If not, navigate to /usr/bin/dmenu_run. See if your code resembles the sloppy pstree code. Yes? replace with nice pstree code

sloppy pstree code

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#!/bin/sh
cachedir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-"$HOME/.cache"}
if [ -d "$cachedir" ]; then
	cache=$cachedir/dmenu_run
else
	cache=$HOME/.dmenu_cache # if no xdg dir, fall back to dotfile in ~
fi
(
	IFS=:
	if stest -dqr -n "$cache" $PATH; then
		stest -flx $PATH | sort -u | tee "$cache" | dmenu "$@"
	else
		dmenu "$@" < "$cache"
	fi
) | ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"} &

nice pstree code

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#!/bin/sh
cachedir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-"$HOME/.cache"}
if [ -d "$cachedir" ]; then
	cache=$cachedir/dmenu_run
else
	cache=$HOME/.dmenu_cache # if no xdg dir, fall back to dotfile in ~
fi
exec $(
	IFS=:
	if stest -dqr -n "$cache" $PATH; then
		stest -flx $PATH | sort -u | tee "$cache" | dmenu "$@"
	else
		dmenu "$@" < "$cache"
	fi
)

before

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init-+-bash---urxvt---bash
     |-bash---urxvt---bash---pstree
     |-bash---iceweasel---47*[{iceweasel}]
     |-dbus-daemon
     |-dbus-launch
     |-dhclient
     |-getty
     |-login---bash---startx---xinit-+-Xorg
     |                               `-cwm
     |-udevd
     `-wpa_supplicant

after

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init-+-dbus-daemon
     |-dbus-launch
     |-dhclient
     |-getty
     |-login---bash---startx---xinit-+-Xorg
     |                               `-cwm-+-iceweasel---35*[{iceweasel}]
     |                                     |-2*[urxvt---bash]
     |                                     `-urxvt---bash---pstree
     |-udevd
     `-wpa_supplicant

[pidsley]

Thank you. I don't use dmenu_run much, so I really didn't notice this change. Your fix worked for me.

[dkeg]

^great, glad to hear. Thanks for the feedback