Dmenu

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dmenu is a fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X. It reads arbitrary text from stdin, and creates a menu with one item for each line. The user can then select an item, through the arrow keys or typing a part of the name, and the line is printed to stdout. dmenu_run is a wrapper that ships with the dmenu distribution that allows its use as an application launcher.

Troubleshooting

Exits immediately when typing

• [FS#61673 : dmenu 4.9-1 segfaults immediately on user input]

If the XMODIFIERS environment variable is set, the corresponding ime must be connected. Start the corresponding ime together during initialization in xinitrc. When using fcitx:

export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
fcitx &

See also

• xorg
• suckless
• Rofi
• Jgmenu
• Dzen

Favorite site

• dmenu - ArchWiki