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=Overview= | =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: | 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. | 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. | |||
B. Trying to start dmenu from the terminal, the error | |||
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 | |||
Edit file /usr/bin/dmenu_run | LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" <-- Change it according to your locale. | ||
dmenu_path | dmenu "$@" | ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"} | |||
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