#Kris's build of dmenu

My build of dmenu, the dynamic menu for X.

Based on BreadOnPenguins' dmenu with center and xresources patches.

#Features

• Center patch: dmenu appears centered on screen (-c flag)
• Vertical listing: Show options in a vertical list (-l flag)
• Xresources: Read colors from ~/.Xresources (pywal compatible)
• Alpha: Transparency support
• Emoji: Can view color characters like emoji
• Password mode: -P flag hides user input
• Reject non-matching: -r flag rejects input that doesn't match an option
• Mouse clickable: dmenu options are mouse clickable

#Patches

#Usage

# Run dmenu centered
dmenu_run -c

# Vertical list centered
echo -e "option1\noption2\noption3" | dmenu -c -l 3

# Password mode
echo -e "option1\noption2" | dmenu -P

# Reject non-matching input
echo -e "yes\nno" | dmenu -r

# With prompt
dmenu -c -l 5 -p "Select:" < options.txt

#Installation

git clone https://github.com/krisyotam/dmenu
cd dmenu
sudo make install

#Credits

• suckless.org - original dmenu
• BreadOnPenguins - base build with center + xresources patches

#Other Suckless Repos

• dwm - dynamic window manager
• st - simple terminal
• dwmblocks - modular status bar

#Contact

• Kris Yotam krisyotam@protonmail.com
• https://krisyotam.com