On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:39:55PM -0400, Alec Berryman wrote:
Donald Bruce Stewart on 2007-04-16 09:13:31 +1000:
droundy:
After that, I'd be interested in a decent input prompt (which dmenu is not). Ion's is better, but I'd rather figure out how to make use of an actual bash shell, as the tab completion of ion's query box is annoying (but better than nothing).
Does anyone know of a 3rd party tool for this? Like dmenu , but for more complex input?
gmrun includes tab-completion, handles URLs, and can open specified programs in a shell.
Ah yes, that looks much nicer! The only catch is that it doesn't do tab-completion on arguments to the program... or rather, it does do tab-completion, but assumes the only arguments will be other programs. It suffers from the same problem ion's query menu does, which is that it tries to reinvent the wheel (which is to say, tab completion). Still, it's close to as good as ion3's query menu, which itself is good enough that I haven't yet gotten around to replacing it (although it annoys me almost every time I use it), so I suppose for now it'll do. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University