Not sure how useful this will be, but I altered dmenu so it can grab the
X keyboard before reading input from stdin.
It works well on my netbook, where occasionally dmenu_run can take up to
a second to grab the keyboard, meaning I end up typing a load of
jibberish into the focused window, expecting it to go into dmenu.
Just an itch it scratches really.
Cheers,
Rob.
diff -r a79e4a9cb167 dmenu.c
--- a/dmenu.c Sat Nov 20 09:25:08 2010 +0000
+++ b/dmenu.c Fri Feb 18 04:24:31 2011 +0000
@@ -66,6 +68,7 @@
int
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int i;
+ Bool fastgrab = False;
progname = "dmenu";
for(i = 1; i < argc; i++)
@@ -78,6 +81,10 @@
topbar = False;
else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-i"))
fstrncmp = strncasecmp;
+ else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-f"))
+ fastgrab = True;
else if(i == argc-1)
usage();
/* double flags */
@@ -101,15 +108,61 @@
usage();
dc = initdc();
initfont(dc, font);
+
+ if(fastgrab)
+ setup(); /* grab X _now_ */
+
readstdin();
- setup();
+
+ if(!fastgrab)
+ setup();
+ else
+ match(); /* need to re-match now we've read the input */
+
run();
return EXIT_FAILURE; /* should not reach */
}
@@ -536,7 +594,7 @@
void
usage(void) {
- fputs("usage: dmenu [-b] [-i] [-l lines] [-m monitor] [-p prompt] [-fn font]\n"
+ fputs("usage: dmenu [-b] [-i] [-q] [-l lines] [-m monitor] [-p prompt] [-fn font]\n"
" [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] [-v]\n", stderr);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
