Nick Coleman 's comment on mylast tools entry introduced me on to dmenu , which has rapidly become animportant component of my environment. The basics of dmenu aredescribed nicely in Nick's comment, but I do two unconventional thingswith it.

The first is that I drastically restrict dmenu's command completion.The 'standard' dmenu setup has it doing command completion on everythingin your $PATH . After trying this briefly, I rapidly came to theconclusion that it made no sense and only created clutter

Every so often I wind up reading something that makes me see red.Today's is this piece (seen via Hacker News). So I want to write an open message:

Dear open source people, it is really simple. If someone has a workingsystem at time X, upgrades to your new software, and their system stopsworking, they do not care if their system might work at some undefinedpoint in the future. You broke their system now , and this is whatthey care about. You