i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:13:06 +0000Why does dmenu not pick up an applicationhttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/792/why-does-dmenu-not-pick-up-an-application/I have added a directory called '/home/caj/scripts' to my $PATH, via .bashrc, which contains a symlink defined as follows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 caj caj 55 May 19 2012 subl -> /home/caj/progs/SublimeText/Sublime Text 2/sublime_text This link means from any terminal I can type 'subl', and as you might expect, sublime_text opens. However, the dmenu does not seem to be picking this up, and I cannot figure out why. Any suggestions?Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:31:29 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/792/why-does-dmenu-not-pick-up-an-application/Answer by joepd for <p>I have added a directory called '/home/caj/scripts' to my $PATH, via .bashrc, which contains a symlink defined as follows:</p> <p>lrwxrwxrwx 1 caj caj 55 May 19 2012 subl -&gt; /home/caj/progs/SublimeText/Sublime Text 2/sublime_text</p> <p>This link means from any terminal I can type 'subl', and as you might expect, sublime_text opens.</p> <p>However, the dmenu does not seem to be picking this up, and I cannot figure out why. Any suggestions?</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/792/why-does-dmenu-not-pick-up-an-application/?answer=795#post-id-795Dunno, possibly the cache is somehow not updated. I would delete the cache-file and hope for the best. To find the cache-file, run `less $(which dmenu_run)`. Good luck. Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:17:50 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/792/why-does-dmenu-not-pick-up-an-application/?answer=795#post-id-795Comment by Chris Jefferson for <p>Dunno, possibly the cache is somehow not updated. I would delete the cache-file and hope for the best. To find the cache-file, run <code>less $(which dmenu_run)</code>. Good luck. </p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/792/why-does-dmenu-not-pick-up-an-application/?comment=796#comment-796Thanks. dmenu_run pointed me to dmenu_path. I found the cache file by stracing dmenu_path. It is ~/.dmenu_cache on my computer. By deleting this it now seems to be recreated correctly. I guess this was originally run without my .bashrc being parsed, to get my path?Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:32:11 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/792/why-does-dmenu-not-pick-up-an-application/?comment=796#comment-796Comment by joepd for <p>Dunno, possibly the cache is somehow not updated. I would delete the cache-file and hope for the best. To find the cache-file, run <code>less $(which dmenu_run)</code>. Good luck. </p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/792/why-does-dmenu-not-pick-up-an-application/?comment=799#comment-799My installation of `dmenu_run` compares the timestamp of its cachefile with the timestamps of executables in $PATH. If the cache is older than the newest file, the cache will be rewritten. Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:13:06 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/792/why-does-dmenu-not-pick-up-an-application/?comment=799#comment-799