gbgabo / dmenu

gabo's fork of dmenu, the dynamic menu for X

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dynamic menu

dmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for X.

Requirements

In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files.

⚙️ 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.

➕ Current Patches

Visual

center

• centers dmenu in the middle of the screen;
• https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/center/

fuzzyhighlight

• make it so that fuzzy matches gets highlighted;
• requires fuzzymatch patch;
• https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/fuzzyhighlight/

Utilities

fuzzymatch

• allows users to type non-consecutive portions of the string to be matched;
• https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/fuzzymatch/

mousesupport

• adds mouse interactions such as scroll and click selection;
• https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/mouse-support/