Drawk

wayluigi-backed dmenu replacement, designed for Sway.

Reads newline-separated items from stdin, opens a centered floating window with a search field and a filtered list, prints the selected item to stdout on Enter, exits 1 on Escape or empty stdin.

Build

./download-deps.sh
nimble build -d:wayland -d:release

Use

printf 'alpha\nbeta\ngamma\n' | ./Drawk

Keys

Key	Action
printable characters	append to the filter query
Backspace	delete one byte from the query (ASCII)
Up / Down	move selection
Ctrl+P / Ctrl+N	move selection
Enter	print selection to stdout, exit 0
Escape	exit 1 without printing anything

Sway integration

Drawk sets its xdg app_id to Drawk, so a single for_window rule pins size and position. Add to ~/.config/sway/config:

for_window [app_id="Drawk"] {
    floating enable
    resize set 480 360
    move position center
    border none
}

# launch any executable on $PATH
bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id sh -c \
  'find $(echo $PATH | tr : " ") -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable -printf "%f\n" \
   | sort -u | Drawk | xargs -r swaymsg exec --'

The resize set is needed because Wayland compositors negotiate window size via xdg_toplevel.configure and may override the size Drawk requests at creation.

Theming

Drawk follows the rawk family palette convention. Default is gruvbox material dark, baked in at src/theme.nim. Override per-user by dropping a .theme file in ~/.config/Drawk/themes/ — same format as Edrawk's themes/default.theme.

Pick the active palette with --theme NAME on the command line:

--theme value	Source
global	~/.config/unrawk/active.theme (whatever Thrawk last wrote)
gruvbox	themes/gruvbox.theme (any name matching a local .theme file)
omitted	same as --theme global

If global is requested but Thrawk hasn't written active.theme yet, or the named file is missing/unparseable, Drawk falls back to the baked-in gruvbox palette. Put the flag in your sway binding:

bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id sh -c \
  '... | Drawk --theme global | xargs -r swaymsg exec --'

Font follows fc-match monospace:mono by default; override with the RAWK_FONT environment variable pointing at a TTF path.

License

GPL-3.0-only.