Hi, I received the suggestion below to register the Wayland application launcher fuzzel as a dmenu alternative, but the dmenu alternatives in the suckless-tools package were removed in 2015 [1]. What are your thoughts on reinstating the dmenu alternatives in suckless-tools?
Thanks, Peter [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/suckless-tools/-/commit/1615ed4639b92fe0cf5da797c4ac905193ef6731 On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:34:23AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Package: fuzzel > Version: 1.9.2-1 > Severity: normal > > Fuzzel is documented to mimick dmenu when executed under that name. > > Please ease doing so, by a) registering the executable with the Debian > alternatives system, and have the binary package provide dmenu. > > With that in place, other packages like sway that depend on the > executable dmenu can be made to use fuzzel with no intimate changes to > those packages (only adjust them to explicitly depend on or recommend > dmenu instead of indirectly via suckless-tools). > > - Jonas >
