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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 + |