could not find dmenu_run

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A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

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could not find dmenu_run #416

Closed ZvikaZ closed 11 months ago

ZvikaZ commented 3 years ago

I'm working at a CentOS7, without root permissions.

I've compiled spectrwm myself. It works OK so far. However, there's a total exceptions: 2, first exception: could not find dmenu_run message at the top. Therefore, I've compiled it as well, and added it to path. Then refreshed with meta+q - but it's still there.

I've seen other similar reports, but this one is different:

It doesn't open even with meta+p
I have which, and it's able to find dmenu_run

Thanks

LordReg commented 3 years ago

It appears which and/or dmenu_run may not be in the PATH of spectrwm's environment. Keep in mind that spectrwm itself will not read PATH from ~/.bashrc, etc. You need to set PATH in the environment where spectrwm is started. (e.g. ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xprofile, etc)

For example, if starting via ~/.xinitrc:

export PATH="/home/user/bin:$PATH"
exec spectrwm

ZvikaZ commented 3 years ago

Thanks, it indeed helped. It's worth mentioning in the Install section, when there will be one ;-)