dmenu - dynamic menu

dmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for X.

Notice

I no longer use dmenu in favor of my own script, fzfmenu. As such, this will no longer be maintained with upstream dmenu code. Nonetheless, since dmenu changes very little and very slowly, you may still find it useful.

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.

My patches

the source code of my build implements the following patches:

• alpha
• xyw
• line height
• highlight
• numbers
• no sort
• preselect
• case insensitive
• border
• listfullwidth
• center
• tsv alt

in addition, the COMPLETE_PATCH.diff file is one big patch file containing all of these patches, along with my post-patching bugfixing, and customization, for anyone to apply to the base dmenu source code. honestly I don't really know what the use for this would be, but it's there unfortunately, due to the amount of post-editing and bugfixing I did, it would be unviable to distribute each of these patches individually