Using environment variables might be fine for very simple programs but, in my opinion, if a program has more than 4 or 5 options, it should use a configuration file. Restarting your login session or reloading your window manager just to change how a single program works is pretty stupid. Not to mention, your environment variables look like garbage that you'd never want in your ~/.bash_profile.
Sure, you could just script the whole thing or use `env BEMENU_OPTS='....' bemenu and then you won't need to restart your session/window manager but it's not really a good solution, in my opinion.
ayushnix
commented
2 years ago
Using environment variables might be fine for very simple programs but, in my opinion, if a program has more than 4 or 5 options, it should use a configuration file. Restarting your login session or reloading your window manager just to change how a single program works is pretty stupid. Not to mention, your environment variables look like garbage that you'd never want in your
~/.bash_profile.Sure, you could just script the whole thing or use `env BEMENU_OPTS='....' bemenu and then you won't need to restart your session/window manager but it's not really a good solution, in my opinion.