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dmenu won't open #5112
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Not a solution but bemenu is native wayland and can be configured to look/behave pretty much exactly like dmenu. |
I have the same issue. |
Using Maybe it's time to reconsider whether to use Line 21 in f9a5c18
Alternatives are listed here (I'd say we should pick one that supports Wayland natively):
Not sure though if there would be a consensus, if something like
I haven't tested it but adding
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I don't personally like bemenu, because its codebase is kind of a mess and it has dynamically loadable backends which make everything more complicated. |
@emersion ok, that makes sense, thanks for the reply. I assume you don't like the other ones either (AFAIK you use https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/dotfiles/tree/master/item/bin/menu)? I briefly looked at the rest of the alternatives from the two lists above and it looks like they all have some issues (look too different, too complex, too many dependencies, etc. - https://github.com/nyyManni/dmenu-wayland might have potential but I guess a dependency on glib-2.0 and gobject-2.0 is also not ideal(?)).
So I guess it's best to stick with |
Yeah, I'm personally using a terminal + fzf as my menu. Probably not something most users will want. fuzzel looks like it could be a good alternative, but is focused on the launcher aspect (with things like .desktop file parsing, icons and such) and has (IMHO) an ugly default style (that could maybe be improved). |
I ran into this today, ended up fixing it by specifying a monitor to
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dmenu won't open on system startup. If i wait for 5 minutes or open any xwayland app(emacs, brave..) then it opens as long as xwayland app stays open.
It produces this error when executed from terminal
sway version 1.4
sway log
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