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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:40:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 11:36 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On 2024-07-14, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 07:16 this Sunday (GMT):
[snip]
>>> FVWM has this thing called "pipe menus", where you can construct a menu
>>> dynamically from the output of a program.  I'm sure other window
>>> managers have this, but this means you can call xlock to list all the
>>> screensaver types, then construct a menu which launches the locker from
>>> that.
>>
>>
>> Neat! I know you can implement that relatively easily with something
>> like dmenu.
>
> dmenu is prety good in that respect.  I did use it for another window
> manager where the piperead dynamic menus were not available, to solve
> the same problem.  The advantage though of FVWM is that the menu is
> equal to other menus, operate the same, same fonts, appearance, etc,
> whereas with dmenu, its a different look, feel and operation.
>
> That said, dmenu is part of my standard install.


Right, the suckless programs do have some nice scriptability. I
personally have a keybinding to surf for an online dictionary thing.
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