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bemenu
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Bash Menu
I really like using something like fuzzy search for menus like these. https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu is pretty cool in that it works both in a terminal, X11 and on Wayland, so if you want to do something graphical later you can easily migrate. There's also fzf and skim, which work similarly but are only for the terminal.
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Run scripts using keybindings in default settings
I know that dmenu won't work on wayland, hence I installed bemenu as a drop-in replacement. Now I want to configure keybindings for my scripts using the default settings, but they don't seem to work. Running my scripts from the terminal work, but not when running them via keybinding.
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command line menu / launcher?
bemenu (i. e. bemenu-run) is a simple launcher that has command line interface (set with BEMENU_BACKEND environment variable), also fzf can be useful in this regard but it will most likely require writing additional scripts to work as a launcher.
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The end of the nice GTK button
I've already highlighted how using environment variables to change themes is a horrible user experience. The bemenu program suffers from the same flaw. Environment Variables should never be used in any way for values that might change inside a running session.
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How to accept text input in swaynag?
bemenu
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No_color
Environment variables are fine when used for things that usually don't change once they're set. For example, XDG_CONFIG_HOME or GOPATH. They are, however, absolutely awful when used to configure values that will probably change inside a session. A good example is BEMENU_OPTS from the bemenu program, which is used to change colors, font etc. Should I relogin into my session just to make a program use dark mode colors?
https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu#environment-variables
In such cases, environment variables lose their intended purpose and they need to be stuffed into wrapper scripts or overridden on the command line before executing a command, which is extremely annoying.
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Identifying the window of Bemenu
Bemenu - "Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu"
- Less Than 10% of Firefox Users on Linux Are Running Wayland
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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
Instead of rofi, bemenu[2] is nice too.
[1] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/issues/264
[2] https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu
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tessen: an interactive menu to autotype and copy password store data on Wayland, like rofi-pass
tessen can use either bemenu, the wayland fork of rofi, or wofi to show password store data. It relies on wtype for autotyping instead of using ydotool because ydotool needs root privileges.
xmenu
- Bash Menu
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[OC] XFiles: A modular X11 file browser (WIP)
It does not have a context menu. Instead, it uses a script set in the $XFILES_CONTEXTCMD environment variable. This script must call xmenu, pmenu, thingmenu, jgmenu, or any other mouse-controllable menu; and gets as argument the paths to selected files.
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Suggest me an application launcher.
xmenu
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Is there a way to add widgets to your menu?
Another not centric way, but simple and fast is xmenu, which allows to use simple scripting for each row (common for any WMs): * https://github.com/phillbush/xmenu
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[Patch Idea] Right Click Behavior Like in Original FVWM?
here you go this is exactly what you want. You could reimplement this in your build or follow the suckless philosophy and use this tool.
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Where all the menu entries?
xmenu https://github.com/phillbush/xmenu and generate with xdg-xmenu https://github.com/OliverLew/xdg-xmenu, I like this style and configuration of it. It is not in lua, but idea and concept is suckless.
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Asking about can your software support RTL
Haven't tried this one since dmenu works for me, but I think xmenu might have better support for it. It's not as suckless but honestly dealing with multiple languages sucks lol
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I wrote 91menu, a better 9menu (?).
Nice. I also wrote a popup menu utility that has the same input-to-output interface as dmenu. But mine is a little more bloated: it supports input from keyboard, nested menus, icons and label/command separation.
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Xorg crashes: can't found ISO-8859-2d
The only other requirement should be xmenu
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How does DWM manage menus?
Have a look into dmenu, rofi and xmenu. They are all good at different things. The first two are keyboard driven and support a basic application menu by default. Xmenu is more like a context menu. For the most part you create the menus yourself with scripts. You can pipe stuff into their stdin and get the selected entry via stdout. Here is an example of what I use for my dwm build.
What are some alternatives?
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
tessen - an interactive menu to autotype and copy pass and gopass data
alttab - The task switcher for minimalistic window managers or standalone X11 session
rofi-pass - rofi frontend for pass
awesome-freedesktop - Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM
Sway-DE - 🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
91menu - A Plan9-inspired, mouse-oriented, graphical menu, which works with the standard input.
pass-tessen - fuzzy data selection and copy-paste from password store
dmenu-pango
password-store-example - Gopass examples
moonwm - My own outstandingly named Window Manager