bemenu

Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu (by Cloudef)

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bemenu reviews and mentions

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  • Bash Menu
    4 projects | /r/archlinux | 25 May 2023
    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.
  • Run scripts using keybindings in default settings
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 16 Jan 2023
    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.
  • command line menu / launcher?
    3 projects | /r/commandline | 1 Oct 2022
    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.
  • The end of the nice GTK button
    2 projects | /r/linux | 25 Mar 2022
    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.
  • How to accept text input in swaynag?
    4 projects | /r/swaywm | 4 Mar 2022
    bemenu
  • No_color
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2022
    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.

  • Identifying the window of Bemenu
    2 projects | /r/swaywm | 7 Feb 2022
    Bemenu - "Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu"
  • Less Than 10% of Firefox Users on Linux Are Running Wayland
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2022
  • Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2021
    Instead of rofi, bemenu[2] is nice too.

    [1] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/issues/264

    [2] https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu

  • tessen: an interactive menu to autotype and copy password store data on Wayland, like rofi-pass
    7 projects | /r/bash | 14 Nov 2021
    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.
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