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Re:Show HN: Grid-based window tiling for X11 with powerful k... by fiatjaf on Thursday June 08, 2017 @09:05AM (#14513868)
dmenu takes 2 seconds to open on my computer. It's horrible. But I use it too little to worry about changing it.

My question is: how do you open ssh from dmenu? I can't open terminal applications from dmenu, it should open a terminal automatically, I guess, but it doesn't do anything. Is that controlled by some other Linux configuration? I'm on Ubuntu with i3.

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Re:Show HN: Grid-based window tiling for X11 with powerful k... by tmearnest on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:35PM (#14516104)
You'd need either write a special dmenu script to run it in an xterm, or add a simple script to your path:

#!/bin/sh

exec xterm -e ssh user@hostname

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