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i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:56:45 +0000Custom dmenu alternative with terminal, but dock mode script brokenhttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/4384/custom-dmenu-alternative-with-terminal-but-dock-mode-script-broken/I have been trying to play with this on and off for a while. I like dmenu, but I make use of a lot customized character encodings and RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian). I would like to use dmenu, but it mangles this terribly. For terminal use, I have to use mlterm because of these constraints. I would like to have a terminal-based menu manager, like dmenu, or rather bashrun and even closer slmenu. I thought the best of both worlds would be bashrun, but is not quite what I want as the completions were strange and it runs slow. Slmenu also seems to have problems with the input I have tried in non-English characters. So, I would rather write up my own scripts and run them directly in the terminal (mlterm). Of course I can do that easily, but I also want to have it pop-up on the bottom like `dmenu -b` I am currently using extensively for customized menus and ops. I found a Github gist that almost does what I want to emulate `_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK` call required by i3 (i3wm.org/docs/wsbar.html) dock mode and other WMs. I modified it from urxvt to mlterm. Problem is focus is still on the previous app (and cannot do much because of `-SIGSTOP`. Secondly, regardless of changing the `bottom` variable for `_NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL` variable to different sizes, it always appears to take 1/3 to 1/4 of the bottom of the screen. Freedesktop documentation (standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s05.html) suggests it should not work this way. Code below. #!/usr/bin/env bash TERM=mlterm TERMNAME=mlterm-dock XSCREENWIDTH=$(xrandr | grep \* | sed -e 's/x.*//' -e 's/^ *//') TERMHEIGHT=10 TERMWIDTH=$XSCREENWIDTH killall -SIGSTOP i3 $TERM --geometry=$TERMWIDTHx$TERMHEIGHT --name="$TERMNAME" & sleep 1 TERMXID=0x$(xwininfo -root -tree | grep "$TERMNAME" | sed -e 's/.*0x//' -e 's/ .*//') xprop -id $TERMXID -f _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL 32cccccccccccc -set _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL "0, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, $TERMWIDTH" xprop -id $TERMXID -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE 32a -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK killall -SIGCONT i3 So is there a better way to accomplish this. Ideas?Sun, 03 Aug 2014 21:17:21 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4384/custom-dmenu-alternative-with-terminal-but-dock-mode-script-broken/Comment by Nicolás for I have been trying to play with this on and off for a while. I like dmenu, but I make use of a lot customized character encodings and RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian). I would like to use dmenu, but it mangles this terribly. For terminal use, I have to use mlterm because of these constraints. I would like to have a terminal-based menu manager, like dmenu, or rather bashrun and even closer slmenu. I thought the best of both worlds would be bashrun, but is not quite what I want as the completions were strange and it runs slow. Slmenu also seems to have problems with the input I have tried in non-English characters. So, I would rather write up my own scripts and run them directly in the terminal (mlterm). Of course I can do that easily, but I also want to have it pop-up on the bottom like <code>dmenu -b</code> I am currently using extensively for customized menus and ops. I found a Github gist that almost does what I want to emulate <code>_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK</code> call required by i3 (i3wm.org/docs/wsbar.html) dock mode and other WMs. I modified it from urxvt to mlterm. Problem is focus is still on the previous app (and cannot do much because of <code>-SIGSTOP</code>. Secondly, regardless of changing the <code>bottom</code> variable for <code>_NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL</code> variable to different sizes, it always appears to take 1/3 to 1/4 of the bottom of the screen. Freedesktop documentation (standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s05.html) suggests it should not work this way. Code below. <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env bash TERM=mlterm TERMNAME=mlterm-dock XSCREENWIDTH=$(xrandr | grep \* | sed -e 's/x.*//' -e 's/^ *//') TERMHEIGHT=10 TERMWIDTH=$XSCREENWIDTH killall -SIGSTOP i3 $TERM --geometry=$TERMWIDTHx$TERMHEIGHT --name="$TERMNAME" & sleep 1 TERMXID=0x$(xwininfo -root -tree | grep "$TERMNAME" | sed -e 's/.*0x//' -e 's/ .*//') xprop -id $TERMXID -f _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL 32cccccccccccc -set _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL "0, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, $TERMWIDTH" xprop -id $TERMXID -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE 32a -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK killall -SIGCONT i3 </code></pre> So is there a better way to accomplish this. Ideas? https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4384/custom-dmenu-alternative-with-terminal-but-dock-mode-script-broken/?comment=7008#comment-7008Any news? It would be great to have something like this working!Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:56:45 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4384/custom-dmenu-alternative-with-terminal-but-dock-mode-script-broken/?comment=7008#comment-7008