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I've noticed that if you don't specify a prompt, there are visual glitches on the left side of the bar. The content is different between runs.

i come here from an alternative to dmenu, but now scrolling through the entries got difficult because of this

Please add icons.

This is a an extremely nice alternative to dmenu, although the only thing it lacks for me is the option to show a list horizontally rather than always vertically. Is there a possibility of adding that feature to xprompt?

square box showing random visual corruption

This would allow resolution-independent sizing and positioning. For example, -g 20%x32 would make a bar 32 pixels high and 20% of the horizontal resolution wide.

I haven't tried xprompt yet, but I was looking through the raw manpage on github, and it looks like the keybindings are just geared towards specifying the actions that xprompt itself knows how to perform. Xprompt should also also allow specifying a separate, fully custom set of keychords which, when triggered, send a custom piece of data back to the wrapper script so that it can take an appropriate action. Implementing this would fill in a big hole in dmenu functionality.

These custom actions could be implemented as environment variables with multiple fields, e.g. like this (in bash syntax):

XPROMPTCUSTACTION01='CTRL-r:BOBSYOURUNCLE'
XPROMPTCUSTACTION02='ALT-4:LIFETHEUNIVERSEANDEVERYTHING'
XPROMPTCUSTACTION03='CTRL-!:ONCE, UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY AS I PONDERED WEAK AND WEARY'
XPROMPTCUSTACTION04='ALT-B:' #<- where data is arbitrary data, whether or not it fits into the UTF-8 character set, although you could use null as the terminator for these data strings if you really had to, as null is pretty commonly avoided in environment variables anyway.