Fix check for dmenu (open file mode, dependency on which). See . --- quickswitch-i3-2.2/quickswitch.py 2016-09-18 19:59:10.257765542 +0200 +++ quickswitch-i3-2.2/quickswitch.py 2016-09-21 10:43:01.277577819 +0200 @@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ import argparse import subprocess -import os import re +from distutils.spawn import find_executable + try: import i3 except ImportError: @@ -37,11 +38,8 @@ def check_dmenu(): '''Check if dmenu is available.''' - devnull = open(os.devnull) - retcode = subprocess.call(["which", "dmenu"], - stdout=devnull, - stderr=devnull) - return True if retcode == 0 else False + executable = find_executable("dmenu") + return executable != None def dmenu(options, dmenu):