MarkHedleyJones/dmenu-extended

Question: How do I exclude all directories from dmenu?

fromtheeast710 opened this issue · 6 comments

fromtheeast710 commented

I have tried
"exclude_items": ["/*"],
"global_ignore_folders": ["/*"],
"ignore_folders": ["/*"],
but that doesn't seem to work

fromtheeast710 commented

Nevermind, that worked.

MarkHedleyJones commented

Glad you found the solution.
Was the issue that you hadn't rebuilt the cache after changing the settings?

fromtheeast710 commented

I did rebuild the cache, the problem was that I set "alias_applications" to false, which I later changed back to true.

MarkHedleyJones commented

Okay, well I'm glad you got it working in the end.

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fromtheeast710 commented

Another question since you are here: Is there a way to change how programs are displayed without using the config file? For example "mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui --" is displayed as mpv Media Player but I only want it to be MPV. Where does dmenu-extended get that name from?

MarkHedleyJones commented

The names are extracted from the .desktop file for the relevant application.
For example, here's one for Arduino:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Arduino IDE
GenericName=Arduino IDE
Comment=Open-source electronics prototyping platform
Exec="/home/mark/Downloads/arduino-1.8.19-linux64/arduino-1.8.19/arduino"
Icon=arduino-arduinoide
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;IDE;Electronics;
MimeType=text/x-arduino;
Keywords=embedded electronics;electronics;avr;microcontroller;
StartupWMClass=processing-app-Base
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