Kai Grossjohann writes:

There are XMonadContrib modules for prompts. I started to use them recently, and I never looked back.

I see why. That's a really nice extension. I thought dmenu was OK (if a bit slow, before the kernel's cached all the inodes), but this is vastly superior. [...]

Don Stewart writes: [...]

dmenu is nice if you do the caching yourself. there's some flag to enable that.

Does it? Anyway, it's easy enough to do the caching---it just never bothered me enough to do it. But the stuff in XMonadContrib does proper shell commands, completing filenames very neatly. Very cool.

ShellPrompt is really cool thanks! Quoting Spencer Janssen :

On Monday 17 September 2007 10:53:45 lobzang@free.fr wrote:

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Hi,

Xinerama seems to work well with xmonad.

I'm using dmenu to launch programs. If I go to my second screen, then press mod-p to launch a new program, the dmenu interface appears on my first screen. Is it a bug or conf pb?

Thanks !

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Dmenu doesn't support Xinerama, but Jason Creighton wrote a patch that adds support for it http://www.jcreigh.com/dmenu/dmenu-3.2-xinerama.patch

Also, you might want to take a look at XMonadContrib.ShellPrompt.

Cheers, Spencer Janssen

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