On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:58:12 +0100 Martin Ellis <ellis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > We had a strange situation where putting the menu in stdin was > difficult. > > For our situation supplying the menu on the command line would be > easier. > > Attached is a patch that provides this. > > The new syntax is > > dmenu -m "hello\nworld" > > or use the -d flag to specify the seperator > > dmenu -m "hello%world" -d "%" > > The old style still works. > > Hope this helps someone. > > Mex. maybe you should mention what problem you had where writing to stdin did not work. it's likely it can be fixed. Dieter