https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:30:50 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6299/repeat-or-history-for-dmenu-commands/ In shell you can use up/down arrows to access previously run commands. How can I have the similar behavior: $mod + D, then up/down arrows to select comamnd, and maybe edit before re-run the command Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:29:26 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6299/repeat-or-history-for-dmenu-commands/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6299/repeat-or-history-for-dmenu-commands/?answer=6367#post-id-6367Here's another script, not only assessing recency but also, if an app should be run in the background or in the terminal: https://github.com/manjaro/packages-community/blob/master/dmenu-manjaro/dmenu_recency Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:30:50 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6299/repeat-or-history-for-dmenu-commands/?answer=6367#post-id-6367https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6299/repeat-or-history-for-dmenu-commands/?answer=6308#post-id-6308The default for **$mod+d** currently is `dmenu_run` which utilizes `dmenu` for prompting. In `dmenu` you can navigate the choises with either **Left**/**Right** for the (default) single-lined interface or **Up**/**Down** for the multi-line interface (with parameter `-l NUMBER_OF_LINES`). **Tab** pulls the selected choice and it can then be edited. In order to have a history of recent commands you can modify `dmenu_run` to also save and display previous choices. I use the following script instead of `dmenu_run` (which I named `emenu_run`): <pre> #!/bin/sh cachedir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-"$HOME/.cache"} histsize=50 if [ -d "$cachedir" ]; then cache=$cachedir/emenu hist=$cachedir/emenu_hist else cache=$HOME/.emenu_cache # if no xdg dir, fall back to dotfile in ~ hist=$HOME/.emenu_cache_hist # if no xdg dir, fall back to dotfile in ~ fi if [ ! -e "$hist" ]; then touch "$hist" echo foo fi cmd=$( IFS=: if stest -dqr -n "$cache" $PATH; then (tac "$hist" ; stest -flx $PATH | sort -u | tee "$cache" ) | dmenu "$@" else (tac "$hist"; cat "$cache") | dmenu "$@" fi ) #echo "$cmd" | ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"} & i3-msg "exec $cmd" sed -i -e "/^${cmd}$/d;${histsize}q" "$hist" echo "$cmd" >> "$hist" </pre> This saves the last 50 choices (edit `histsize=50` for more or less) alongside the normal cache file and presents them first in order of recentness. It also uses `i3-msg exec …` instead of just passing it to a shell, which allows for applications that support it (unfortunatelly not all do) to appear on the workspace on which they were called.Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:01:57 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6299/repeat-or-history-for-dmenu-commands/?answer=6308#post-id-6308https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6299/repeat-or-history-for-dmenu-commands/?answer=6300#post-id-6300 For future viewers, I found rofi: https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi and I am very happy with it.Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:36:54 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6299/repeat-or-history-for-dmenu-commands/?answer=6300#post-id-6300