basename instead of absolute path

[ovitus]

Have this on NixOS, is there a configuration to show basenames instead of full paths?

[benjaminedwardwebb]

I would take a look at https://github.com/Shizcow/dmenu-rs/issues/53 and the linked PRs.

The tl;dr is that the full paths you're seeing are due to a bug that's since been fixed on master. Showing basenames is the expected behavior.

I haven't updated the package in nixpkgs (thanks for this reminder to do so, hopefully before 23.11 is cut), but since you're using NixOS you can use an overlay on the package so that it builds off master where the bug is fixed (that's what I've been using).

I'll point you here for information on nix overlays, in case you're unfamiliar: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays

Update: I submitted this PR to nixpkgs to upgrade the package to 5.5.3.

[benjaminedwardwebb]

Here's an example NixOS configuration snippet that applies such an overlay.

nixpkgs.overlays = [
    (self: super: {
        dmenu-rs = super.dmenu-rs.overrideAttrs rec {
            version = "master";
            patches = [ ];
            src = super.pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
                owner = "Shizcow";
                repo = super.pkgs.dmenu-rs.pname;
                rev = version;
                sha256 = "sha256-LdbTvuq1IbzWEoASscIh3j3VAHm+W3UekJNiMHTxSQI=";
            };
        };
    })
];

It's not precisely what I use, but I think it should work. Let me know if you try it and it gives you some trouble.

[ovitus]

Thanks for the quick response and an example overlay, I've been looking to try that out since I'm fairly new to Nix. I'll test it out tomorrow.

[ovitus]

Reporting back that the overlay worked. Thank you!

[benjaminedwardwebb]

Reporting back that the overlay worked. Thank you!

Since this issue is a duplicate of a known, existing bug that is already fixed on master, can you close it @ovitus?

If you feel you'd like to record this issue somewhere, I would suggest filing an issue on nixpkgs. Or you can simply follow this PR until it merges (I'll try to shepherd the patch through in the next couple weeks when I have spare time). The patch will probably be released in NixOS 24.05 (and the overlay should work until then).

[benjaminedwardwebb]

@ovitus FYI an issue was filed to nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/223667 and the package update was merged https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/268547

It's not available in nixpkgs 23.11 but should be available on the next release 24.05 in May. Can you close this issue? Thanks! FYI @Shizcow

[ovitus]

Thank you @benjaminedwardwebb