Advanced key bindings

[MeisterLLD]

Hi. Typing the following in terminal does not achieve what is expected (i.e. open the file with dragon-drop) dmenu_extended_run "dragon-drop:" Same happens with any other software.

Same happens with the example provided in the documentation dmenu_extended_run "-> Internet search: " "Wikipedia" this opens standard dmenu extended.

On the other hand, typing dragon-drop: then enter in dmenu extended and then selecting the file, works.

This was working well up to a few months ago.

[MarkHedleyJones]

Hi @MeisterLLD thanks for trying dmenu-extended. Actually that's not an intended use-case for the menu, but it is interesting. That would allow for creating keyboard bindings that access a particular item or filter in the menu. I like it. Interesting that you said it was working up until a few weeks ago. It might be due to a new launcher script that's being used now (which is generated by the installer). I'll try the original launcher script and see if the behaviour described makes that work.

[MarkHedleyJones]

Okay so to shed some light onto things... The original launcher script dmenu_extended_run was replaced when updating the installer to use setuptools instead of distutils #123. As of that version, setuptools doesn't seem to support the old way of packaging up the launcher script as it instead generates its own with the target that is set in pyproject.toml.

[project.scripts]
"dmenu_extended_run" = "dmenu_extended.main:run"

There is another issue with the generated launcher (#153) in that it introduces a noticeable delay when opening the menu. I've run out of time to investigate this further at the moment so I'm leaving this information here as-is for future reference.

Maybe it's possible to modify the way the launcher script is generated so that it behaves the same as the old script.