dmenu/README.md

dmenu - dynamic menu

dmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for X.

Personal Adjustments

This build has a history feature, can open a terminal window if command ends in "!" and is adjust to fit bar padding used in dwm.

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.