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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
------------
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.