From 7552a02d5ca5b46b985a89294126782b494e0ec0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:32:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?i3-dmenu-desktop:=20run=20commands=20when=20the?=
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This allows you to enter e.g. "i3 layout stacking" (provided you don’t
have an i3 .desktop file)
---
 i3-dmenu-desktop | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/i3-dmenu-desktop b/i3-dmenu-desktop
index 65e99ec0..cf5b41e0 100755
--- a/i3-dmenu-desktop
+++ b/i3-dmenu-desktop
@@ -346,7 +346,13 @@ if (exists($choices{$choice})) {
         last;
     }
     if (!defined($app)) {
-        die "Invalid input: “$choice” does not match any application.";
+        warn "Invalid input: “$choice” does not match any application. Trying to execute nevertheless.";
+        $app->{Name} = '';
+        $app->{Exec} = $choice;
+        # We assume that the app is old and does not support startup
+        # notifications because it doesn’t ship a desktop file.
+        $app->{StartupNotify} = 0;
+        $app->{_Location} = '';
     }
 }