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dmenu in i3 failed while pressing $mod+d in Manjaro i3

I have recently Installed Manjaro i3 and then when tried to use $mod+d to invoke dmenu it was not working.

After searching in the Internet I got the below info to execute dmenu_recency. How I came to Invoke this Command is by going to ~/.i3/config

In the config file the

bindsym $mod+d exec –no-startup-id dmenu-recency

Now when I tried to invoke dmenu-recency I was getting the below error in the screenshot

After searching I have added the Language line in /usr/bin/dmenu_run
But still my Issue was not solved

Again after search I found this article

I Opened my Terminal and executed the below command

$export LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8"

After Executing it was still giving me error. So I checked what was the locale that was configured.

$ emacs /etc/default/locale

Here I found that my Locale was in Indian English so I changed the Command the above command and executed

$ export LC_CTYPE=”en_IN.utf8″

Wow. Now the dmenu_recency just worked.

Again when Executing the $mod+d still it was not working due to conflict with my host system. Due to this I started to change the Key Binding in the i3 config file.

Thanks

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