On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Adam Sjøgren
Carsten writes:
For some reason dmenu_run is configured by many Xmonad users instead of the shellPrompt, which is superior in several ways. I mean, everybody should give it a try as they're nicer to use and more flexible to configure. There are more prompts available than only shellPrompt.
You're not selling it well - I have something which works fine, and you say I should switch to something which is superior, nicer and more flexible...
Well, what does it actually provide which makes it those things? How will I feel the difference?
Just curious!
I'm not a car sales man but I can try to list advantages in the hopes of convincing you to try it out. * the completion behavior suits me better when for example you're completing an executable inside a directory * it more correctly picks up $PATH entries compared to dmenu_run * it doesn't delay as much due to caching like dmenu_run and feels faster on startup because of that while not missing new executables just installed * behavior is configurable in xmonad.hs * presentations is configurable in xmonad.hs Configuration if you want to configure it is simple, just consult the online documentation. http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Prompt.html#t:XPConfig http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Prompt-Shell.html Also there are other prompts than just shellPrompt like in the ion window manager or stumpwm. I believe someone recently contributed a password retrieval prompt but I didn't try that.