dmenu - dynamic menu

dmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for X.

Requirements

In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files.

You must have libxft-bgra installed until the libxft upstream is fixed. (emoji support)

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. Extra stuff added to vanilla dmenu:

reads Xresources (ergo pywal compatible)
alpha patch, which importantly allows this build to be embedded in transparent st
can view color characters like emoji (libxft-bgra is required for this reason)
-P for password mode: hide user imput
-r to reject non-matching input
dmenu options are mouse clickable