Been watching through your channel for the past couple of days. Solid vids! I've been using Arch for over a decade and I still learned a thing or two with your pacman vid (or at least, refamiliarized myself with certain flags). Keep going! You're definitely helping people out there.
Hey, thank you so much - what a kind comment! I'm glad even a seasoned Arch user found something useful :) I definitely intend to continue making vids.
Yo bread this is awesome. I’ve used dmenu for my launcher in arch for years but never looked too deep into it. I got a lot of ideas now! Thank you for this video
I just found your channel and instantly subbed with your "I hope tomorrow's better for you", we need more people caring for each other the way that you do! Thank you for the content!
It's always worth remembering that the internet is still comprised of humans :) Caring about each other is what makes the world a better place. No problem, and thank you for watching and subbing!
@@BreadOnPenguins yep, looking into them. Yabai seems to be the best at the moment. I might buy a gaming pc, and install linux for work, to test, so i might actually return to your videos at some point :) Thanks!
@@leonbishop7404 definitely won't do it on a laptop i use for work :) Macos is not bad, i don't want to replace it with highly exeperimental os. I'd rather build another PC and use proper maintainable linux distribution.
Hey its really nice seeing someone else using dmenu like that. I also use it for backups using timeshift 😅😅😅😅 Maybe you can also look at DistroTube's video titled :- "Solve problems with Shell Scripting and Dmenu." Its really amazing as to what you can do with a simple menu application. Keep making videos like that 👍👍👍👍
Very good video, I only have dmenu because of dwm but I'd never bothered configuring it until recently (dmenu I mean, not dwm -- I have been writing my own patches for dwm for a decade now). Now considering switching to st.
Really nice video! I've used dmenu for quite a while (and tried rofi for a bit but just found I wasn't interested in most of the customisation) but this video got me to think about using them more in my workflows (especially like the note taking idea!) Question about the scripts: what's the reason for the \ following the functions?
Hello, thank you! Glad to hear it gave you some ideas :) Short answer: \ is cosmetic most of the time. Long answer: The backslash tells bash that the line continues, so it treats the next line as part of the same command. In these examples, it's not strictly necessary, but (imo) it makes the code a bit cleaner and is good practice, just for separation from the function definition to function body.
Fantastic video! I remember adding .txt check to my notes creation, because i always would forgot to not type note.txt and file would became note.txt.txt :) looking forward to see more.
I somehow had no idea there were case statements in bash! How about that!? Enjoyed the video. You’ve certainly opened my eyes to the extended functionality of dmenu.
Love your vids!! Subscribed, keep it up :) Did you know: Penguins propose with pebbles! Male penguins, especially Adélie penguins, often present a smooth, perfect pebble to a female as a courtship gift. If she accepts, they use it to help build their nest together!
Are you AI? You have to tell me if you are! Your niceness, intelligence and lack of obnoxious clickbait in the title and thumbnail of your video has me very confused about what I’m seeing here 🤩 Well done 👍
Any basic tutorial recommendations for someone whose never written a bash script in his life? Just did a fresh install of Arch (which I've used off and on for years) this morning with DWM (first tiling window manager I've ever used), the latter mostly chosen because I liked your Arch+dwm video. It's working, but needs some serious customization.
I've got a couple tutorials for bash shell basics; I'll cover writing a simple bash script soon. If you don't know the syntax for shell scripts, cheat.sh has a great bash cheatsheet. Glad you were able to get an arch+dwm install working! I do have a video about patching dwm as well as one for setting up dwmblocks, so those should get you started. Thanks for watching and commenting :)
@@BreadOnPenguins I'm conversant with the Bash terminal in general, although your tutorials were a nice refresher for a man who hasn't used Linux on the regular in about seven years. But there's a significant divide between being able to perform basic file management with the terminal and writing usable scripts... or so it has always seemed to me. Will look forward to your tutorials.
here from dt's channel. I just installed dwm and dmenu from source. I've used dwm before, but missed my blackbox menu. this time its much better with dmenu. is there a way to set the terminal to dark mode?
Thanks for checking out my channel! Glad you got dmenu working. Terminal colors would depend on what terminal emulator you're using, but usually that would be in configuration, or if using st, the config.h file in source. Or if you were referring to the colors in dmenu itself, that would just depend on system colors.
I like the "no bs" approach with condensed information in the video. It's much welcomed change from what YT usually presents,
Been watching through your channel for the past couple of days. Solid vids! I've been using Arch for over a decade and I still learned a thing or two with your pacman vid (or at least, refamiliarized myself with certain flags). Keep going! You're definitely helping people out there.
Hey, thank you so much - what a kind comment! I'm glad even a seasoned Arch user found something useful :) I definitely intend to continue making vids.
I've heard about dmenu but I haven't thought of any use cases until I saw your audio switcher example. Really awesome video.
Glad to have shared something useful! Thank you :)
Yo bread this is awesome. I’ve used dmenu for my launcher in arch for years but never looked too deep into it. I got a lot of ideas now! Thank you for this video
Hey thanks for watching and commenting, glad to hear that! No problem
I just found your channel and instantly subbed with your "I hope tomorrow's better for you", we need more people caring for each other the way that you do! Thank you for the content!
It's always worth remembering that the internet is still comprised of humans :) Caring about each other is what makes the world a better place.
No problem, and thank you for watching and subbing!
I don’t even use arch atm, I need something similar for mac, but I like your setup and explanations. Keep it up :)
Hey, thanks for watching! :) For mac, I'd recommend the yabai tiling WM, I've heard it's pretty good
which mac do you use? there is asahi linux for apple silicon based hardware
@@BreadOnPenguins yep, looking into them. Yabai seems to be the best at the moment.
I might buy a gaming pc, and install linux for work, to test, so i might actually return to your videos at some point :) Thanks!
@@leonbishop7404 definitely won't do it on a laptop i use for work :) Macos is not bad, i don't want to replace it with highly exeperimental os. I'd rather build another PC and use proper maintainable linux distribution.
Glad for this recommendation on my feed. Subbed! I never thought about checking what dmenu could do, so its quite nice to get inspired.
Hello, thank you so much! Glad to hear :)
Hey its really nice seeing someone else using dmenu like that. I also use it for backups using timeshift 😅😅😅😅
Maybe you can also look at DistroTube's video titled :- "Solve problems with Shell Scripting and Dmenu." Its really amazing as to what you can do with a simple menu application.
Keep making videos like that 👍👍👍👍
Hey, awesome! Sure I'll have a look at that, I've seen a few vids about dmenu but not his yet. It definitely is, and will do! Thanks for watching :)
ok im switching back to dmenu from rofi! thanks a lot
Awesome! Np :)
Wow nice, thank you very much!
No problem - thanks for watching and commenting! :^)
Very good video, I only have dmenu because of dwm but I'd never bothered configuring it until recently (dmenu I mean, not dwm -- I have been writing my own patches for dwm for a decade now). Now considering switching to st.
Hello, thank you! The suckless programs are some of the best for configuring and modding. I will likely make a future video on st.
such a better explainer than luke smith
Hey thanks, I appreciate that
Luke Smith mentioned, I miss him man .
Papa Luke we miss you ❤
@@RazoBeckett. RIP
@@-Engineering01- he died ? i can't believe that ...
Solid content! Thank you fro sharing.
No problem, and thank you for watching!
i love your wallpapers
Thank you :)
Really nice video! I've used dmenu for quite a while (and tried rofi for a bit but just found I wasn't interested in most of the customisation) but this video got me to think about using them more in my workflows (especially like the note taking idea!)
Question about the scripts: what's the reason for the \ following the functions?
Hello, thank you! Glad to hear it gave you some ideas :)
Short answer: \ is cosmetic most of the time.
Long answer: The backslash tells bash that the line continues, so it treats the next line as part of the same command. In these examples, it's not strictly necessary, but (imo) it makes the code a bit cleaner and is good practice, just for separation from the function definition to function body.
Fantastic video! I remember adding .txt check to my notes creation, because i always would forgot to not type note.txt and file would became note.txt.txt :) looking forward to see more.
Thank you! Haha I've done that before as well tbh, muscle memory for adding a .txt on the end
Really interesting, i use rofi but dmenu it very powerfull 💪
Indeed it is! Rofi has plenty of great features as well
Thanks for watching and commenting :)
I like how you started the video 😄👍
Thanks! :)
Thanks for this! Very fun.
No problem! Thank you for watching
Its very useful thanks. Thats why i really like using suckless softwares
Agreed! Thanks for commenting
@@BreadOnPenguins subscribed too
I somehow had no idea there were case statements in bash! How about that!? Enjoyed the video. You’ve certainly opened my eyes to the extended functionality of dmenu.
Indeed there are! I'll make a video about bash scripting at some point. Glad to hear - thanks for watching. :)
Love your vids!! Subscribed, keep it up :)
Did you know: Penguins propose with pebbles! Male penguins, especially Adélie penguins, often present a smooth, perfect pebble to a female as a courtship gift. If she accepts, they use it to help build their nest together!
Hey there, thank you so much! That's an awesome penguin fact, indeed I did not know! Thanks for sharing :)
Are you AI? You have to tell me if you are! Your niceness, intelligence and lack of obnoxious clickbait in the title and thumbnail of your video has me very confused about what I’m seeing here 🤩 Well done 👍
Lol, I appreciate it!
It is cool!
Thank you! :)
This is realy useful. Subbed +1!
Thanks so much! :)
Any basic tutorial recommendations for someone whose never written a bash script in his life? Just did a fresh install of Arch (which I've used off and on for years) this morning with DWM (first tiling window manager I've ever used), the latter mostly chosen because I liked your Arch+dwm video. It's working, but needs some serious customization.
I've got a couple tutorials for bash shell basics; I'll cover writing a simple bash script soon. If you don't know the syntax for shell scripts, cheat.sh has a great bash cheatsheet.
Glad you were able to get an arch+dwm install working! I do have a video about patching dwm as well as one for setting up dwmblocks, so those should get you started.
Thanks for watching and commenting :)
@@BreadOnPenguins I'm conversant with the Bash terminal in general, although your tutorials were a nice refresher for a man who hasn't used Linux on the regular in about seven years. But there's a significant divide between being able to perform basic file management with the terminal and writing usable scripts... or so it has always seemed to me. Will look forward to your tutorials.
here from dt's channel. I just installed dwm and dmenu from source. I've used dwm before, but missed my blackbox menu. this time its much better with dmenu. is there a way to set the terminal to dark mode?
Thanks for checking out my channel! Glad you got dmenu working. Terminal colors would depend on what terminal emulator you're using, but usually that would be in configuration, or if using st, the config.h file in source. Or if you were referring to the colors in dmenu itself, that would just depend on system colors.
i ended up figuring it out. xterm was white so i switched to st.
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