phillbush
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1 year ago That would require xmenu handle input, which is a lot of work to do in plain Xlib.
For XFiles, you can already use dmenu with it. An example is provided here. Typing Ctrl-G or Ctrl-L opens a dmenu (or xprompt, etc) asking for a directory to cd to.
similar to dmenu, make a prompt at the cursor's position waiting for key input, ignoring all but the ASCII character set. this can replace useless hard-set dependencies in xfiles.