dmenu: Your own Custom Script Menus!

[DigitalMetal]

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

[_madev]

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.

[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.

[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'

[lonniebest]

Very powerful. Thanks for showcasing these features.

[RobertMurphySeattle]

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

[christianvangindertael]

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!!

[mandeepill]

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

[fuanka]

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

[renanabreusilveira]

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!

[errvega]

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 👍

[dmitrykamchatny]

You can change Dmenu colours using dmenu_run.
Example:

dmenu_run -nf -nb '#272727' -sf -sb '#DD0000' -fn 'monospace-10' -p 'Dmenu'

[akontio-wkhk]

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!

[rfren]

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

[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

[algarrobotgn]

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

[luksyrabs]

Using it with rofi would be great as well.

[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