Would this not have problems with dwm? AFAIR, dwm doesn't have floating windows in the center of the screen. I admit I may have missed something there though.
I suppose the entire point of the suckless utilities is that they can be used in any environment. Let's suppose there is a setup where windows are unable to be centered, would we want to exclude those people from using a dmenu-replacement? Maybe an XMonad user, or someone running an OpenBSD manager decided to set up their system to explicitly *not* allow floating windows. This user would be completely alienated by this term-based launcher. On top of that, it stops me from using different colors and transparency for my dmenu than I use for my terminal. Perhaps I misunderstand? Are you saying this could be a decent suppliment to the X programs? Or are you saying that these are actual viable replacements? Let me know. I am interested, but I think there is a possibility I don't completely get you. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, March 13, 2020 8:51 AM, Tobias Bengfort <tobias.bengf...@posteo.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I am surely not the first to come up with this[1], but I think many X > tools could be replaced by TUIs running in st. Think about this quick > example (dmenu replacement): > > tmpi=$(mktemp) > tmpo=$(mktemp)(font rendering > trap "rm -rf '$tmpi' '$tmpo'" EXIT > > cat > "$tmpi" > > st -i -g '60x12' -e sh -c "cat '$tmpi' | fzf --reverse > '$tmpo'" > > cat "$tmpo" > > > The interesting thing about this is that you replace all the complexity > of X (e.g. font rendering) with all the complexities of the terminal > (e.g. ANSI escape codes). > > I believe there could be changes to st that would make this kind of > usage simpler, e.g. an option for full-width or to automatically attach > stdin/stdout to the command (fzf in this case). > > But the more important question at this point: Do you think this trade > of complexities is worth it? > > tobias > > [1]: https://medium.com/njiuko/using-fzf-instead-of-dmenu-2780d184753f
