Hey, I was not working on the problem directly; however as far as I know it was a combination of some nasty C and upstream restrictions on how the code should be written.
We did get it working using stdin, however being able to supply the options in the format I suggest would have made things much easier. Mex. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <die...@plaetinck.be>wrote: > 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 >
