dmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for X.
- allow-color-font
- border
- alpha (require border)
- passwords -> hidden user input
- highlight
In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files.
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
See the man page for details.