wmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for Sway and wlroots based Wayland compositors. It provides a Wayland-native dmenu replacement which maintains the look and feel of dmenu.

Installation

Dependencies:

cairo
pango
wayland
xkbcommon
scdoc (optional)

$ meson build
$ ninja -C build
# ninja -C build install

Usage

See wmenu(1)

To use wmenu with Sway, you can add the following to your configuration file:

set $menu dmenu_path | wmenu | xargs swaymsg exec --
bindsym $mod+d exec $menu

Contributing

Send patches and questions to ~adnano/wmenu-devel.

Subscribe to release announcements on ~adnano/wmenu-announce.

Credits

This project started as a fork of dmenu-wl. However, most of the code was rewritten from scratch.