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> xmonad has a built-in (xmonad-contrib) program launcher prompt

kinda-sorta...

http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Prompt-A...

doesn't do exactly what i want... i'm looking for something more like this

http://lpaste.net/145311

, except the completions list and tab stuff don't work

aaand, i have to get back to "web" technologies :)

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This is your easy Mod-p replacement: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Prompt-S...

You can give it something else than defaultXPConfig to customize the look and completion behavior: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Prompt.h...

I just switched from dmenu to the contrib prompt, only thing to look out for is that the searchPredicate function of the XPConfig doesn't actually seem to do anything.

Setting:

  searchPredicate :: String -> String -> Bool
  searchPredicate = \_ _ -> False

seems to make no difference.

And the default is:

  searchPredicate = isPrefixOf

Patching and recompiling with this patch[1] mentioned here[2] seems to fix the issue.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/attachmentText?id=39... [2]: https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=393

Care to resubmit that patch at https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib? That way it can be part of the 0.12 release.

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