bemenu
Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu
Building
# Build everything
make
# To build only certain features, pass the targets which you are interested into
#
# You can also use the following meta-targets for common features:
# - clients (bemenu, bemenu-run)
# - x11
# - wayland
# - curses
#
# For example this would build the bemenu and bemenu-run binaries and the x11 backend:
make clients x11
# To install the built features, simply run:
make install
# NOTE: You may get errors during install when not building all the features.
# These errors are free to ignore if `Install OK!` is printed.
# By default that will install to /usr/local, but you can change this with PREFIX
make install PREFIX=/usr
# Other usual variables are available for modifying such as DESTDIR, bindir, libdir and mandir
# Note that if you want a custom PREFIX or libdir, you should pass those during build as well,
# since they will be used compile-time to figure out where to load backends from!
# HTML API documentation (requires doxygen installed):
make doxygen
# To test from source, you have to point the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and BEMENU_RENDERERS variables:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. BEMENU_RENDERERS=. ./bemenu-run
OSX
# Make sure you have GNU Make and pkg-config installed
brew install make pkg-config
# You may need to setup your pkg-config to point to the brew version of the libraries
# For example to build curses backend, you'd do:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig" gmake curses
# Other than that, follow the normal build steps, but use gmake instead of make
Dependencies
All dependencies are searched with pkg-config
Backend | Dependencies |
---|---|
curses | ncursesw |
x11 | x11, xinerama, cairo, pango, pangocairo |
Wayland | wayland-client, wayland-protocols, cairo, pango, pangocairo, xkbcommon |
Environment variables
Variable | Description | Value |
---|---|---|
BEMENU_OPTS | Options for bemenu, bemenu-run from env | Any cli argument |
BEMENU_BACKEND | Force backend by name | x11, wayland, curses |
BEMENU_RENDERER | Force backend by loading a .so file | Path to the .so file |
BEMENU_RENDERERS | Override the backend search path | Path to a directory |
About Wayland support
Wayland is only supported by compositors that implement the wlr-layer-shell protocol. Typically wlroots-based compositors.
License
- GNU GPLv3 (or any later version) for client program[s] and other sources except library and bindings
- GNU LGPLv3 (or any later version) for library and bindings