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Overview

dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.

Tips & Tricks

warning: no locale support

Sometimes for no apparent reason users face the following dmenu problem:

A. When calling dmenu from a key binding in their environment dmenu comes up but when they continue to select anything in dmenu, it disappears from the screen and does not execute anything. B. Trying to start dmenu from the terminal, the error "warning: no locale support" appears.

Assuming that you have correctly set up your system's LOCALE settings, here is a simple solution to this problem:

Edit file /usr/bin/dmenu_run and add a line setting your LANG variable to your actual language locale before the line that calls dmenu:

#!/bin/sh
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"                                 <-- Change it according to your locale.
dmenu_path | dmenu "$@" | ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"}

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-=Overview=
+dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.
-Sometimes for no apparent reason users face the following dmenu problem:
-When calling dmenu from a key binding in their environment dmenu comes up but when they continue to select anything in dmenu, it disappears from the screen and does not execute anything.
-Trying to start dmenu from the terminal, the error "warning: no locale support" appears.
+=Tips & Tricks= <!--T:3-->
-Assuming that you have correctly set up your system's LOCALE settings, here is a simple solution to this problem
+==warning: no locale support== <!--T:4-->
+Sometimes for no apparent reason users face the following dmenu problem:
-=Install the prefered languages=
-Edit file /etc/locale.gen
-<pre>sudo nano /etc/locale.gen</pre>
-Uncomment only the lines for the required languages. In this case the lines
-<pre>el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8
-en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8</pre>
-and save.
-<br />
-Regenerate locales for the changes to take effect
-<pre>sudo locale-gen</pre>
-<br />
-=Enable Console language switching=
-Edit file /etc/vconsole.conf
-<pre>sudo nano /etc/vconsole.conf</pre>
-Change the content to read
-<pre>
-KEYMAP=uk
-KEYMAP_TOGGLE=gr
-</pre>
-and save.
-<br />
-=Enable X11 language switching=
-Edit file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-keyboard.conf
-<pre>sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-keyboard.conf</pre>
-In section "InputClass", after the line Identifier "system-keyboard", add the lines
-<pre>Option "XkbLayout" "gb,gr(polytonic)"
-Option "XkbOptions" "grp:lalt_lshift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"</pre>
-and save.
-<br />
-<br />
-!!! If you have used the MHWD utility to configure your graphics card, then there will be a file 90-mhwd.conf. For the changes you have made in file 20-keyboard.conf to work, you have to edit this file and comment out the line with the XkbOptions, in section InputClass, as below:
-<pre>
-Section "InputClass"
-	Identifier          "Keyboard Defaults"
-	MatchIsKeyboard	    "yes"
-	#Option              "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
-EndSection
-</pre>
-<br />
-=Install & configure graphical language switcher (xxkb)=
-Install program xxkb
-<pre>sudo pacman -S xxkb</pre>
-<br />
-Create folder in /home/jimmy/.config that will hold the language flag images used by the xxkb switcher
-<pre>sudo mkdir /home/jimmy/.config/xxkb</pre>
-<br />
-Go to any site providing free images of country flags and download the flag images for United Kingdom and Greece.
-<br />
-Resize the flag images you downloaded to 20x20 pixels and convert them to be of type xpm.
-<br />
-Rename the flag images to gb.xpm and gr.xpm for United Kingdom and Greece respectively.
-<br />
-Copy the flag images into the folder /home/jimmy/.config/xxkb that you have previously created.
-<br />
-Create configuration file for xxkb in user's home folder.
-<pre>sudo nano /home/jimmy/.xxkbrc</pre>
-Edit it to read
-<pre>
-XXkb.image.path: /home/jimmy/.config/xxkb
-XXkb.group.base: 1
-XXkb.group.alt: 2
-XXkb.mainwindow.type: tray
-XXkb.mainwindow.enable: yes
-XXkb.mainwindow.appicon: yes
-XXkb.mainwindow.border.width: 1
-XXkb.mainwindow.label.enable: no
-XXkb.mainwindow.border.color: white
-XXkb.mainwindow.geometry: 20x20+0+0
-XXkb.mainwindow.image.1: gb.xpm
-XXkb.mainwindow.image.2: gr.xpm
-XXkb.mainwindow.image.3:
-XXkb.mainwindow.image.4:
-XXkb.mainwindow._delete: no
-XXkb.button.enable: no
-XXkb.controls.focusout: no
-XXkb.controls.two_state: no
-XXkb.controls.add_when_start: yes
-XXkb.controls.add_when_create: yes
-XXkb.controls.add_when_change: no
-</pre>
-and save.
-<br />
-=Make xxkb autostart when openbox starts=
-Edit openbox's autostart configuration file
-<pre>sudo nano /home/jimmy/.config/openbox/autostart</pre>
-In section ##Startup, after the last line, add the line
-<pre>(sleep 1s && xxkb) &</pre>
-and save.
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+A. When calling dmenu from a key binding in their environment dmenu comes up but when they continue to select anything in dmenu, it disappears from the screen and does not execute anything.
+B. Trying to start dmenu from the terminal, the error "warning: no locale support" appears.
-<br />
+<!--T:6-->
+Assuming that you have correctly set up your system's LOCALE settings, here is a simple solution to this problem:
-=Reboot the operating system=
+<!--T:7-->
-<pre>sudo reboot</pre>
+Edit file '''/usr/bin/dmenu_run''' and add a line setting your LANG variable to your actual language locale before the line that calls dmenu:
+ #!/bin/sh
+ LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"                                 <-- Change it according to your locale.
+ dmenu_path | dmenu "$@" | ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"}
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