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dmenu-scripts

Ask for things

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commit 7f711b616a18581f20e275fa69cbfc9159d4048c
Spenser Truex <truex@equwal.com>
2025-09-05 01:23:24 -0700

Add hack

 README.md | 12 ++++++++++++
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@@ -32,4 +32,16 @@ with that.
 - [sbm](https://github.com/equwal/sbm): manage your bookmarks list
 - [tnon](https://github.com/equwal/tnot): like tmux but not (using mtm and abduco)
 
+## Quick hack for dmenu with sudo
+
+You *could* do:
+```
+alias program='SUDO_ASKPASS=dgivepass sudo -A program'
+```
+
+but it won't come up in dmenu_run. So move `program` to `program-aux` and make a new script at program:
+```
+#!/bin/sh
+SUDO_ASKPASS=dgivepass sudo -A program
+```