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| -rw-r--r-- | FORK_PATCHES | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 4 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | dmenu_omit | 22 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | dmenu_path | 5 |
4 files changed, 55 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/FORK_PATCHES b/FORK_PATCHES index 63cb614..408ba23 100644 --- a/FORK_PATCHES +++ b/FORK_PATCHES @@ -5,3 +5,29 @@ This is my local fork with some patches applied and maintained = Patches +== Filtered Entries + +Manually applied a filter to the pipe arguments to omit certain entries. +Rather than supplying a filtered list, or biasing on recency, this patch omits +anything that is contained in the supplied configuration file: + $XDG_CONFIG_DIR or $HOME/.config/dmenu/dmenu_omitlist + +A simple text file that is passed into dmenu_path to filter any items you wish +to remove. Each path-item name is placed one per line. + +The idea being that - dmenu is useful to have /everything/ available in it. But +some items that you would never call clash with a preinstalled program e.g: + fire (a graphics demo) would make it so, after getting installed by mesa, +filtering for firefox you would need a minimum entry of firef which may break +what you're muscle memory is use to. Simple push fire into you list and you're +good :) + +It also provide a command line tool to help add filter items from your shell: + dmenu_omit fire +will enter that item and sort your list. + +I don't know how portable this is since I wanted to omit the whitespace and that +required the usage of grep -E (which I know isn't the most portable). Feel free +to edit dmenu_omit and either supply a cross *nix way, or simply remove the +whitespace logic from the patch + @@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ dist: clean install: all mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin - cp -f dmenu dmenu_path dmenu_run stest $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin + cp -f dmenu dmenu_omit dmenu_path dmenu_run stest $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/dmenu + chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/dmenu_omit chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/dmenu_path chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/dmenu_run chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/stest @@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ install: all uninstall: rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/dmenu\ + $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/dmenu_omit\ $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/dmenu_path\ $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/dmenu_run\ $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/stest\ diff --git a/dmenu_omit b/dmenu_omit new file mode 100755 index 0000000..d07d8f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/dmenu_omit @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +configdir="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME/.config/dmenu"}" +config="$configdir/dmenu_omitlist" + +[ ! -e "$configdir" ] && mkdir -p "$configdir" + +if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then + echo "Missing argument(s). + Usage: dmenu_omit item" >&2 + exit 1 +fi + +for item in "$@" +do + echo "$item" >> $config +done + +# using grep to filter out any blanks or empty lines +# useful if manually edited +cat -s $config | grep -v -E '^([[:space:]])*$' | sort -u -o $config + @@ -2,12 +2,15 @@ cachedir="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-"$HOME/.cache"}" cache="$cachedir/dmenu_run" +configdir="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME/.config/dmenu"}" +config="$configdir/dmenu_omitlist" [ ! -e "$cachedir" ] && mkdir -p "$cachedir" +[ ! -e "$configdir" ] && mkdir -p "$configdir" IFS=: if stest -dqr -n "$cache" $PATH; then - stest -flx $PATH | sort -u | tee "$cache" + stest -flx $PATH | sort -u | grep -wvF -f $config | tee "$cache" else cat "$cache" fi |