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dynamic menu

dmenu - dynamic menu

dmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for X. And originally developed by suckless.org engineers.

This fork is patched with XFT, focus, fuzzymatch, opacity and other patches. It also includes extra features like:

  • dmenu_app executable, which solarizes dmenu and sorts results by most hits.
  • dmenu_run uses dmenu_app to find executable and run it.
  • dmenu_workspace

Screenshot

My image

Requirements

In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files. See config.mk for details.

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dmenu is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dmenu (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running dmenu

See the man page for details.

You can see my path application menu configuration as an example