jcelerier / dmenu-terminal

Open console applications from dmenu

dmenu-terminal

Allows you to open a terminal app using dmenu.

Setting it up

Put dmenu-terminal somewhere on your $PATH.

Hooking it up to XMonad

It’s easy to run this from xmonad, here’s how I do it:

import XMonad
import XMonad.Util.EZConfig

main = xmonad $ defaultConfig
        `additionalKeysP`
        [ ("M-b" , spawn "$HOME/bin/dmenu-terminal") ]

Hooking it up to i3

bindsym $mod+t exec bin/dmenu-terminal

See also

This is loosely based off of dmenu-web