[xmonad] dmenu tab completion

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

Dear Tyler,


 
On Fri, 17-01-2014, at 04:41, tyler at plantarum.ca wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A few notes about the problem I described below. I referred to tab 
> completion in xmobar - of course I should have said dmenu. The problem 
> (dmenu lacking tab completion of any sort) persists, even after 
> completely purging all xmonad and haskell packages from Debian and 
> reinstalling. A similar problem is described here: 
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/dmenu-4175435436/
>
>  From the forum post, the problem was resolved, but without any clear 
> suggestions as to how or why. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to 
> fix this?



How are you calling dmenu? I think you might need to use "dmenu_run", NOT
just "dmenu" (and this is something that changed sometime in the past).

This is what I have now in my xmonad.hs

 , ((modMask,               xK_p     ), spawn "dmenu_run")



If you change your xmonad.hs you will need to do

xmonad --recompile
xmonad --restart

 
(That said, I find dmenu is sometimes too slow, and I end up using gmrun
 and typing the command and completing in there).

Best,


R.

 

 
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tyler
>
> On 10/01/14 06:44 PM, Tyler Smith wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have been using xmonad for a few weeks. After updating via aptitude 
>> on Debian unstable a few days ago, xmobarno longer offers 
>> tab-completions. It still works, but I have to ype out the whole 
>> command name. The colour of the bar is now black as well.
>>
>> I found some discussion of this on a forum. A solution was to rebuild 
>> xmonad. Not knowing Haskell, I'm not sure how to do this.
>>
>> Is there another solution? If not, how do I rebuild xmonad - is this 
>> even possible with the Debian package, or do I need to install from 
>> source?
>>
>
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