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nyyManni / dmenu-wayland

dmenu for wayland-compositors
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working in terminal but not in wm #1

Closed newincpp closed 5 years ago

newincpp commented 5 years ago

Hi, I just switch from X11 to wayland I was trying to find a remplacement for my dmenu I tried a bunch but your is the only one that satisfy me except I could make it work in real environment: I use sway (just like you it seems). here what I did: set $menu dmenu-wl_path | dmenu-wl --height 20 -i --selected-background "#5322A8" | xargs swaymsg exec problem is: it doesn't grab inputs so I just have a bar hanging at the top on my screen doing nothing and the windows where I was continue to catch my inputs. Can you add on your readme how did you made it work ?

nyyManni commented 5 years ago

Which version of Sway are you running? I am currently on Sway 1.0 and have no issues with grabbing of the keyboard focus.

As the application launcher I use the dmenu-wl_run -executable (part of this repo), and have it bound to Super+D with:

bindsym $mod+d exec dmenu-wl_run -b -i

in Sway configuration.

newincpp commented 5 years ago

sway --version give me: sway version 1.0 it doesn't work either with the call directly in bindsym instead of setting $menu just incase here is my sway config file: https://git.psychoscientists.com/newin/usefulFiles/src/master/swayConfig I'm not sure if it's a bug in dmenu or a conflict in the config file yet

nyyManni commented 5 years ago

Did you try to use exec on dmenu-wl directly in the config instead of running it through swaymsg? I'm thinking that maybe the focusing is lost there.

Also, try with the exact config line that I shared, so that we can rule out an issue with the config.

newincpp commented 5 years ago

set $menu dmenu-wl_run in the config file didn't work bindsym $mod+d exec dmenu-wl_run in config file didn't work swaymsg exec dmenu-wl_run from a terminal work not sure that's happening, the fact it work with swaymsg only in terminal doesn't make any sense to me. Note that I don't have any problem with bemenu. which make things even weirder

nyyManni commented 5 years ago

Sounds really strange indeed. One more thing that comes to my mind is that you seem to be running a multi-monitor setup, and also have two input methods (trackpad and a wacom). Maybe that gets dmenu confused?

I haven't had a chance to test this with a multi-monitor setup yet, so I don't really even expect it to work there yet. Give it a shot with a single monitor only?

newincpp commented 5 years ago

unplugging my second monitor made it work indeed !

nyyManni commented 5 years ago

Good to know. I have an extra monitor laying around somewhere, so I'll try to come up with a patch in a few days.

nyyManni commented 5 years ago

I was able to replicate the issue.

nyyManni commented 5 years ago

This should be fixed now. Also the -m/--monitor -option can now be used to select the monitor which dmenu-wl renders on.