dmenu - dynamic menu
dmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for X.
Requirements
In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files.
Installation
You must have libxft-bgra installed until the libxft upstream is fixed. (emoji support)
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. Extra stuff added to vanilla dmenu:
- reads Xresources (ergo pywal compatible)
- alpha patch, which importantly allows this build to be embedded in transparent st
- can view color characters like emoji (libxft-bgra is required for this reason)
-Pfor password mode: hide user imput-rto reject non-matching input- dmenu options are mouse clickable
Fork from https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/dmenu