Show executables also

[mirkojovanovic]

I want to have desktop files first and executables after. Is this possible?

[enkore]

Nothing a little sh can't fix

j4-dmenu-desktop --dmenu="(cat ; (stest -flx $(echo $PATH | tr : ' ') | sort -u)) | dmenu"

You can swap "cat" and the "(stest ... sort -u)" part to select which one (j4-d-d's output or the binaries list) comes first. Options to dmenu can be passed, too, as usual.

[mirkojovanovic]

What if I have some dmenu options like colors? I just pasted your code and pipeline in front of dmenu command with arguments that worked before but it won't run as it should.

[mirkojovanovic]

Sorry, it's ok, but when I assign it to a key in i3 config file I get error.

[enkore]

It might be an escaping issue. Last time I had those I just created a shell script containing the "complicated" shell code, so in my config I just have something like

bindsym $mod+space exec desktop_menu.sh

That's way easier than to figure out the n levels of quoting and escaping. I created myself a ~/.local/bin for things like these, so I don't even have to type the explicit path to this kind of script.

[mirkojovanovic]

Awesome, thanks a lot! 👍

[mirkojovanovic]

How to disable generic names? For example just "GNU Image Manipulation Program" not that and "Image Editor" for same thing.

EDIT: Found solution.
EDIT: Hm, It looks like --no-generic is not working in command from above. Error is "unrecognized option --no-generic"

[mirkojovanovic]

--no-generic option doesn't work.

[enkore]

--no-generic is not part of a release yet. To use it you'll need to build from source (e.g. Arch Linux AUR, or manually).

[mirkojovanovic]

Ok, thanks. I think you should note that in readme.