Additional Information

Built and configured using dmenu-flexipatch

Patches included:

• barpadding

  • adds padding for dmenu in similar fashion to the barpadding patch for dwm

• border

  • adds a border around the dmenu window

• line-height

  • adds a -h option which sets the minimum height of a dmenu line
  • this helps integrate dmenu with other UI elements that require a particular vertical size

• password

  • with this patch dmenu will not directly display the keyboard input, but instead replace it with dots
  • all data from stdin will be ignored

• xresources

  • allows dmenu to read font and colors from Xresources
  • note that with this patch the Xresources settings takes precedence over command line arguments

• xyw

  • adds options for specifying dmenu window position and width

Original README

dmenu - dynamic menu
====================
dmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for X.


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


Installation
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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
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See the man page for details.