dmenu (fork)

A bloated fork of suckless dmenu with lots of customizations.

This fork merges the following patches:

• dmenu-alpha: adds transparency
• dmenu-bar-height: changes height of items
• dmenu-border: adds a border
• dmenu-caseinsensitive: adds case-sensitivity
• dmenu-center: centers dmenu
• dmenu-fuzzymatch: fuzzy matching
• dmenu-fuzzyhighlight: highlights matching results
• dmenu-initialtext: starts dmenu with user input
• dmenu-linebelowprompt-and-fullwidth: show entries below prompt
• dmenu-mousesupport: mouse support
• dmenu-multiselect: allows multiple items to be selected
• dmenu-numbers: show number of matches/items
• dmenu-password: hides keyboard input with characters
• dmenu-printindex: prints index of item instead of item
• dmenu_run_history: dmenu_run with history

And adds the following other changes:

• always vertical/centered; there is no longer a horizontal mode
• configuration file; loads configuration from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dmenu/dmenu.toml if it exists
• margin and padding; can be configured in config.h or dmenu.toml
• inputless mode using the -i flag
• prioritize history items over exact matches
• faster width calculation of large files
• minimum width can be specified with the -W flag

Have a look at dmenu.toml!

Building and installing

1. clone this repository locally on your machine
2. run make clean && sudo make install from within the repository folder
3. copy and edit the config file: cp /etc/dmenu/dmenu.toml $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dmenu/dmenu.toml

Previews

dmenu_run with history, which prioritize history items over exact matches

dmenu_run

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dmenu as a password prompt

dmenu -p "Enter password:" -P -W 300

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dmenu as a confirmation dialog; with input disabled

echo "OK" | dmenu -p "Confirm this dialog" -i -W 0

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Edit dotfiles; fuzzy matching enabled & numbers displayed

select=$(find ~ -type f | dmenu -F -n -p "~") && [[ -n $select ]] && $TERMINAL -e $EDITOR $select