added a dmenu script

2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/dmenu.sh b/scripts/dmenu.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..b103cd69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dmenu.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+dmenu_command=${dmenu_command:-dmenu}
+hc=${herbstclient_command:-herbstclient}
+
+dmenu_cmd() {
+    $dmenu_command "$@"
+}
+
+simple_command() {
+    arg=$($hc complete 1 "$@"|dmenu_cmd -p "$@:") \
+    && exec $hc "$@" "$arg"
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+    use)    simple_command "$1" ;;
+    *)
+        echo "unknown menu $1" >&2
+        ;;
+esac
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/scripts/execwith.sh b/scripts/execwith.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..ca6564c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/execwith.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# exec a script $2... with settings from rc-file $1
+# useful for various dmenu scripts, e.g.:
+# ./execwith.sh ~/.bash_settings ./dmenu.sh use
+
+source "$1"
+shift
+exec "$@"
+