Hello, I know a lot of people use dmenu with xmonad, so I want to share a one line shell script that I wrote for it which makes it significantly more powerfull. This shell script takes a path argument, and pipes the odd numbered lines to dmenu, it then runs the even numbered line that comes after the odd numbered line selected. This allows verbose shell commands to have nice looking names(a line pair might look like): haskell-lib-docs urxvt -e "w3m /home/timothy/s/doc/other/haskell/libraries/index.html" It also allows for doing submenu's easilly as you can have a line pair like: Documentation dmenu-verbose /home/timothy/etc/docs Attached are the files dmenu-verbose(the shell script) and programs(my main dmenu file) and docs(a submenu). Installisation is easy, 1) Download dmenu-verbose. 2) Go to the directory to which you downloaded it and type: chmod 755 dmenu-verbose #makes it executable sudo cp dmenu-verbose /bin/ #puts it in your path 3) Modify your dmenu file to have each command listed twice, with the first line of each pair being easy to read rather than needing to be a shell command. 4) Change the line in your Config.hs; , ((modMask, xK_p ), spawn "exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu` && eval \"exec $exe\"") -- @@ Launch dmenu to , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_r ), spawn "dmenu-verbose /home/timothy/etc/programs") remembering to make that be the path to YOUR dmenu file. 5) Rebuild and restart xmonad. -- - Tim tim.thelion@gmail.com