PyDmenu: Python yeganesh clone

So, since I’m a long and happy yeganesh user, but I recently moved to debian and didn’t want to have the haskell overhead in my system, I wrote my own little implementation in python.

What is it?

PyDmenu tries to clone the yeganesh behavior. However, it has its own ups and downs. Currently, the code is made to work, not made to look good (it will look good in the future though)

It’s a shell above the dmenu application which is basically a simple launcher.

How to use?

Download the current .tar.bz2 file, untar:

$ tar xjfv pydmenu.tar.bz2

Using it like this:

$(/path/to/pydmenu.py)

will automatically execute the selected item. I have this in a script bound to mod4+p.

What else

The only thing handy would be to know that it creates a simple cPickle file in ~/pydmenu_save

To change any behavior you should edit the pydmenu.py file, the font, colors, etc… are in the DMENU array, only requirement there is to keep dmenu as first.

Enjoy, and please leave any comments (/emails) if something went wrong somewhere.