dmenu

My custom build of suckless dmenu software for my Linux install. I have decided to try out suckless software and I will document my progress here.

Table of Contents

• Applied patches
• Installation
• Credit

Applied patches

In this section I will present patches that I've applied to my custom build of dmenu.

• Center - patch that centers dmenu instance instead of it showing on top of screen.

• Grid - patch that adds grid layout of programs list within dmenu.

• Fuzzyhighlight - fuzzy matches gets highlighted

• Fuzzymatch - adds support for fuzzy-matching

• Lineheight - adds a flag (-h) to set the minimum height of dmenu lines

• Mousesupport - basic mouse support

• Numbers - Displays number of matched and total items in top right corner

• Gridnav - patch that allows to go left and right when searching for programs within an open dmenu instance.

• Border - patch that adds an outside border of a dmenu instance.

Installation

1. Clone this git repository:

git clone https://github.com/mahmoudk1000/dmenu.git

2. Go to the folder cloned repository:

cd dmenu

3. Build the package:

make clean install

Credit

• 6gk/dmenu
• dmenu-kostas