[xmonad] dmenu tab completion

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

That is exactly my situation; I've been using xmonad for about 4 years, but
know no haskell. So early on I created my ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs, and started
cutting and pasting from online examples to change key bindings, etc.

R.

On Sun, 19-01-2014, at 17:15, tyler at plantarum.ca wrote:
> Thanks, that's good to know.
>
> As a newbie, it's very confusing trying to get a basic config set up. There are numerous conflicting examples online. I think I used this one, from the xmonad wiki:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive/Template_xmonad.hs_(0.9)
>
> It includes the problematic dmenu line. If I'm meant to infer from the comments in that file that it's not suitable as a base xminad.hs, it's not clear to me. There is a line indicating 'normally you'd only override the defaults you're interested in' - which I interpreted as meaning use the file verbatim, and change only lines that you need to. Which is what I did. Perhaps the wording could be clarified?
>
> Part of my problem is that Haskell doesn't resemble any language I'm familiar with, so for now anything more involved than changing a key binding requires cutting and pasting from online examples.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tyler
>
> Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Tyler Smith <tyler at plantarum.ca>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> I switched from:
>>>
>>>    , ((modm,               xK_p     ), spawn "exe=`dmenu_path |
>>dmenu` &&
>>> eval \"exec $exe\"")
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>>   , ((modm,               xK_p     ), spawn "dmenu_run")
>>>
>>> and dmenu is now working again.
>>
>>
>>I infer that you have one of those "build up the default from scratch"
>>configs. We have a comment in that example config saying "don't use
>>this as
>>a real config", but various Linux distributions like to remove that
>>comment
>>and recommend its use.
>>
>>If you had not used it, xmonad would probably have handled the dmenu
>>change
>>for you with at most an "xmonad --recompile" needed. This is *why* we
>>disrecommend use of that config --- it hides any changes we make later
>>to
>>xmonad to adapt to changing external utilities, and can hide new
>>functionality.

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