dmenu: Your own Custom Script Menus!

[@schweinekillerlp2245]

"Yo yo everyone"

[@Reichstaubenminister]

yo yo u almost got the colors right

[@DigitalMetal]

I enjoyed this video. And I'm not just saying that because you referenced my channel. :)

[@hammerheadcorvette4]

Your a legend Kris !

[@_ma7dev]

Man, your videos are extremely helpful and encouraged me to literally switch to arch linux fully. I have been using arch as my daily driver and I have made some bash scripts that helped my experience using LARBS. I hope that I can contribute to the community in the near future.

[@abstractapproach634]

BTW ...... right, I think your required by the AEULA (arch end user license agreement) to say that anytime you mention your OS.

[@_ma7dev]

@@abstractapproach634 you know Luke does a lot of videos about his arch setup. It seems that you haven't been following his content and just wanted to make a silly joke about mentioning arch. Next time, learn the context because it matters.

[@MrKashyr]

Thanks Luke, really amazing video. I was so excited in the middle of it that I had to go to do some tweaking and I made myself a reference seeker for LaTeX in vim.

[@duffman6088]

Oh boyyy he's back!

[@lonniebest4697]

Very powerful. Thanks for showcasing these features.

[@vasakq]

Thanks for some useful tips. Just one idea - instead of searching for and recompiling the source code just to change the colour scheme, you can add just one line in ~/.bashrc file : alias dmenu=''dmenu -nf blue -nb black'

[@luksyrabs7213]

Great to see you again Luke.

[@christianvangindertael6843]

I love your channel, so many interesting tips and tricks. I have just implemented your dmenu approach in order to change my screen brightness (because for whatever reason I simply can't get xbacklight to work - however xrandr does work for setting brightness). Thanks!!

[@fuanka1724]

I also use dmenu all the time, never took the time to properly configure and script it. Good tips, thanks.

[@renanabreusilveira2298]

Thx for your video. You give a whole new world of what I can do with dmenu, I was literally using only as a launcher

[@BhashitheAbeysinghe]

Hey thanks mate! I used this idea and made Rofi scripts!

[@mandeep6ill]

luke u r really creative :) i use fzf, its also a fuzzy finder, but runs in command line & i used it to query mongodb collections quickly based on table names :D

[@RobertMurphySeattle]

Great ideas, great instruction, as always. I'm finding it difficult to justify using the few remaining GUI applications that I do.

[@not_herobrine3752]

three years and three months later, are you still cli only?

[@jonasben9649]

four years later are you still cli only?

[@turolretar]

paint in cmd Any% speedrun wr

[@errvega2705]

You can also set colors/fonts with command line parameters.

[@Linuxdirk]

I like your setup! I wish I had a display where a tiling WM would make sense 👍

[@algarrobotgn90]

Thanks for the video! I've just realized there are a lot of things that I could do easier using this :)

[@flightskoo]

What up Luke! Great video once again, keep it up. Obligatory engagement post, ENGAGE!

[@aaronstone628]

You should do a big Linux course.

[@ranska2506]

Thanks guy this vidéo is perfect with full off indications and good ideas ! Parfait !

[@MMABeijing]

oletko ranskalainen?

[@prahe86]

Another great video. You're a great teacher

[@dmitrykamchatny]

You can change Dmenu colours using dmenu_run. Example: dmenu_run -nf '#BBBBBB' -nb '#272727' -sf '#000000' -sb '#DD0000' -fn 'monospace-10' -p 'Dmenu'

[@FishKungfu]

You just made dmenu more fun!

[@luksyrabs7213]

Using it with rofi would be great as well.

[@excitableboy7031]

Bloat

[@Sumguy21]

this changes everything

[@JaimicoCL]

I don’t understand anything, but I enjoy watching your videos :)

[@maggimentis1428]

Thanks for sharing.

[@zvellblade6821]

Hi, I'm newbie🎉. Where can i learn more about this?

[@marcussmithwick6326]

Another great useful video for my ever going autism

[@MoreChannelNoise]

maybe i misunderstand you but you can have a .dmenurc file in your home folder with colours and font settings and then in the dmenscript if [ -f $HOME/.dmenurc ]; then . $HOME/.dmenurc else DMENU='dmenu -i' fi or set the colors and fonts in the dmenuscript itself

[@VulcanOnWheels]

I'm using dmenu to start programs. I'd use it for more, but the font is so small that I can hardly read it. I posted a question about this on Quora, but I have yet to receive a reply to it.

[@cocoapuffs5299]

change the font size in config.def.h, rm -rf config.h, sudo make clean install

[@user-ic7cj8lq9z]

Aah cool. I use dwm and dmenu. I have compiled and customize dwm but I installed dmenu from arch repo however I am still able to customize dmenu colors and font from the dwm config.h. I didn't know how easy it is to integrate dmenu in scripts, sweet

[@CodeAsm]

This teached me alott. Thank you :D

[@r12fre0n]

Still using dmenu? It's all about rofi now baby

[@fabeulous]

Yes it can. Just use the '-dmenu' flag and it behaves exactly the same.

[@EnderCrypt]

is it better than dmenu in most ways? im new to both these

[@fabeulous]

I wouldn't say it's better than dmenu. I just prefer the look of rofi. It also has the nice feature of remembering previous selections, and sorting the suggestions by the number of times they were selected.

[@calmarcalmar]

i use both.

[@wenxiulong4209]

which one do you think is better Cacalari?

[@_mvr_]

dmenu as prompt for file save from (firefox/qutebrowser/) browser? Choices would be folders inside current folder and add +2 choices which would be "Save Here" and ".." for parent dir? I dont enjoy the clear GTK save filechooser that comes by default.

[@andresferral2]

Any ideas in how to use this but with pairs ? (option_to_display, option_to_output)

[@barbarenbernd1861]

Pretty cool, didn't know that.

[@MarkJay]

did you get your X220 back from tripcode?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Yup, I'll put up a video on it.

[@zlovredniyTip]

+Luke Smith how to do you make top right corner look like that?

[@AnastasisGrammenos]

You can config the colors with runtime flags post compilation.

[@akontio-wk2hk]

Hi Luke, I'm a big fan of your videos, and in fact I actually created a Google account JUST to leave this comment and hopefully get an answer. I've been wondering for weeks now how you got your setup looking the way it does, I love that everything is styled like a terminal. I was wondering if you would mind making a tutorial video for customizing our desktop environment to be the same as yours. I would really appreciate if you could get back to me on this!

[@hrnekbezucha]

Totally doing the power off thing with dmenu now. But having one shortcut for selection of what to do seems more logical. I'm not emacs user to memorize a billion shortcuts for everything

[@vicmac3513]

When we'll see more dank dmenu/Vim tutorials by Vim Diesel?

[@BadWolfPlays66]

Hey, Luke. Not sure if you have an answer for me, since it has nothing to do with this vid or any of your vids that I can find. Anyway, I made my own Arch spin from vanilla Arch and I'm using Calamares as the installer. Well, on live I don't have any browsers installed, but I have a browser ballot setup with several choices. If I install using Calamares, it auto-installs Google Chrome, which is one of the choices in the ballot. Is there a way to stop Calamares from auto-installing Google Chrome or any browser? I'm sure it's in the scripts someplace, but I just can't find it.

[@zacharycarbon4312]

What is the purpose of the newline within your test expression here?

[@zacharycarbon4312]

Also, depending on the usecase, evaluating against a double-negative may be desirable as it does not produce a failure return value while still offering the same safety and flexibility: [ $(echo -e "No Yes" | dmenu -i -p "$1") != "Yes" ] || $2

[@jakeduggan3854]

I have a question, when I remove an application from my system, Dmenu still has the application listed. Is there a way to remove the old application from Dmenu? It's quite frustrating that it doesn't remove the application automatically.

[@alexd5637]

Do you have any sort of setup that can emulate applications like asbru-cm (i's similarwith securecrt or mobaxterm). Basically a fast way to open connections from a menu and tab them.

[@klimenkodr123]

Is there a Chad way to manage wifi connections with nmcli and pipes via dmenu?

[@federicoalbesa3748]

Fantástico

[@salman-farooq-sh]

for all the folks on macOS, there is something somewhat similar called BitBar, check it out

[@gery49]

Did you menage to make it work with the automatic colorset selection based on your wallpaper? I would imagine it's quite a bit harder if you have to recompile it every time.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I don't use wal anymore. I'm sure someone's gotten it to work. I will say that if you use rofi, it is affected by wal and I believe it has a dmenu-mode. Not totally sure.

[@gatekeeper258]

Sir, I tried arch, and your larbs. I know this is an unusual request. I cannot get steamcmd from Pacman, it wants me to use the aur, I'm unsure if it's (safe), so either I figure out how to use aur or I'll need to go back to Ubuntu, but if I go that route I'd like to only have i3-gaps on Ubuntu, but sadly it has its own wm already installed. Any advice?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

yay is the AUR helper installed by LARBS. Just use that.

[@AcidiFy574]

what about ROFI??

[@lithiumfrost4659]

Rofi in dmenu mode functions the same and is much more customizable.

[@mario_9431]

>not suckless

[@shail0124]

are you using polybar?

[@tillmannbrodbeck2430]

How do you do your reverse command search? :)

[@finnianquail8881]

YEAH BOI

[@otalpster4392]

Hello. On what machine do you record these videos;

[@MasterSergius]

Hi Luke, great video! And do you know how to setup autolock screen in i3 after some AFK time?

[@christopherfretson5114]

never would have thought of you as an alt hype fan

[@harshallele8309]

Can this search for files in your home directory? That is one of the things that makes me stay on gnome.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

You probably can, but I haven't implemented it yet. I'll say I use fzf within ranger for that though. See this video for the details: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWeXfX55j6utg6c

[@ericwenzke6175]

You could use an application called "albert", it is basically like Mac spotlight

[@Cybolic]

Searching for files is a bit tricky with dmenu since you need to select something instead of typing something. You could combine listing your home directly with the fuzzy matching, but getting into subdirectories would be tricky. If you really want to search from something like dmenu, then rofi can be scripted to support this, though I haven't seen anyone do this so far. As Luke mentioned, fzf is probably better suited for this.

[@rexevan6714]

Luke, what is that vim colorscheme?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I don't have any special vim colorscheme, although I think vim is using my default dark solarized colors set by my terminal.

[@davidmichmerhuizen6475]

Elementary question: how do you get it to say "Like Smith's i3 config"?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

That's produced by the program figlet. If you run `figlet "Blah, blah, blah"` it will produce text art. You can use >> to put this in files, etc. (You'll also need to comment it out of course in the file).

[@davidmichmerhuizen6475]

Thanks duder! congrats on your academic progress!

[@madeso]

Terminal application at the start of the video?

[@knownuser0815]

Looks like Ranger

[@alephanull1953]

Ranger file browser

[@tuxforce]

Could you do the same with rofi?

[@n.g.5234]

Yes, you can. Use the "- dmenu" parameter to make rofi behave exactly like this.

[@linkert810]

Amazing :)

[@MrRenanwill]

If it runs bash, it can make everything.

[@otalpster4392]

Is your config public;

[@realwizardry834]

Luke, I really enjoy some of your videos. Like this one, this video is really good. The videos I don't enjoy are the ones where you cram in all the 4chan memes. If I were you I would make more excellent videos like this one, where there are no memes, and not make ones where you are shitposting in video form. Because people want to learn about this shit but they don't want to have to put up with 4chan bullshit at the same time.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Good thing about the memes is that they keep pearl-clutching morons away. I guess not everyone has the wits to take a hint though.

[@rijnder333]

Are you back on Firefox instead of qutebrowser?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I have both installed, but mostly use qutebrowser.

[@PirateFunk]

based

[@abstractapproach634]

I don't do dmenu, dwm works fine for me by default.

[@abstractapproach634]

Yeah, you didn't sell me. I'm a minimalist, I need a better reason than a menu bar, wallpaper, and transparency to add a package.

[@DrathVader]

This looks so comfy but I don't think I'm autistic enough yet to switch to i3.

[@federicoalbesa3748]

gracias!!! muchas gracias! i always wanted es menu with the most used comands by me. because a do some bothering things with specific sintax and i had to hit up arrow until i found it in the bash history... here is my solution... surely not the best but a beggining: history|awk '{$1="";print substr($0,2)}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -40 |awk '{$1="";print substr($0,2)}'|dmenu it gives me a menu with the most used command sorted the most first. i apreciate a lot your channel, forgive my language, please.

[@aprameyanaganur2934]

bruh your i3 wm configuration is pure unixporn

[@aprameyanaganur2934]

@@folksurvival ik not so unixporn anymore

[@TheDatanet]

Why aren't you just running dmenu with the colors you want as arguments? E.g. dmenu_run -nb "$color0" -nf "$color15" -sb "$color1" -sf "$color15"

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Why would I want to manually set all of those variables in every run instance? What if I want to change them? Since I want a set a global theme, I'll change it in the config source.

[@TheDatanet]

I have dmenu set to use colors from my global theme in .Xresources, so it changes along with the rest of the colors on my system when I use wal. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are trying to do, though.

[@dagda825]

I love suckless. It inspires me to write suckless code.

[@LBRSyt]

Hello world!

[@MoreChannelNoise]

This is the world speaking, hello Luan :)

[@rinnarii]

>be me >got 2 months break >can finally learn linux >luke doesnt upload anything why luke-senpai ;-;

[@patolorde]

I DONT KNOW

[@Bunnyquazel]

Hey Luke, This is how I solved your shutdown problem only using i3! # Shutdown or Restart set $mode_quit [q]uit or [r]estart bindsym $mod+Shift+e mode "$mode_quit" mode "$mode_quit" { bindsym q exec shutdown 0 bindsym r exec shutdown -r 0 bindsym Escape mode "default" }

[@LordOfWizardurl]

yoyo

[@cali-co6428]

boiii

[@LU5DX-1]

Luke, have you tried github.com/mawww/kakoune ? BTW, got an X60 today!!!

[@vison360]

I'd love to see Luke's take on Kakoune. It's my favourite editor now!

[@SandraSmith-d2z]

Christiansen Square

[@fellowgamer5363]

turbo zoomer intro

[@eygs493]

useless