added checks in choose to see if dmenu and pmenu are installed

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/choose b/choose
index 4edf7a7..87fb4c2 100755
--- a/choose
+++ b/choose
@@ -14,7 +14,15 @@ fi
 if [ $DISPLAY ];then
 #usage: dmenu [-bfiv] [-l lines] [-p prompt] [-fn font] [-m monitor]
 #             [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] [-w windowid]
-  dmenu -l 10 -p "$prompt" -nb '#000000' -nf '#00aa00' -sb '#006600' -sf '#00ff00'
+  if which dmenu 2>&1 >/dev/null;then
+    dmenu -l 10 -p "$prompt" -nb '#000000' -nf '#00aa00' -sb '#006600' -sf '#00ff00'
+  else
+    printf "dmenu missing. %s\n" "https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/"
+  fi
 else
-  pmenu -p "$prompt"
+  if which pmenu 2>&1 >/dev/null; then
+    pmenu -p "$prompt"
+  else
+    printf "pmenu missing. %s\n" "https://github.com/sgtpep/pmenu"
+  fi
 fi