From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:32:46 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: i3-dmenu-desktop: run commands when they don’t match a .desktop file
X-Git-Tag: 4.6~69
X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7552a02d5ca5b46b985a89294126782b494e0ec0;p=i3%2Fi3

i3-dmenu-desktop: run commands when they don’t match a .desktop file

This allows you to enter e.g. "i3 layout stacking" (provided you don’t
have an i3 .desktop file)
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diff --git a/i3-dmenu-desktop b/i3-dmenu-desktop
index 65e99ec0..cf5b41e0 100755
--- a/i3-dmenu-desktop
+++ b/i3-dmenu-desktop
@@ -346,7 +346,13 @@ if (exists($choices{$choice})) {
         last;
     }
     if (!defined($app)) {
-        die "Invalid input: “$choice” does not match any application.";
+        warn "Invalid input: “$choice” does not match any application. Trying to execute nevertheless.";
+        $app->{Name} = '';
+        $app->{Exec} = $choice;
+        # We assume that the app is old and does not support startup
+        # notifications because it doesn’t ship a desktop file.
+        $app->{StartupNotify} = 0;
+        $app->{_Location} = '';
     }
 }