2.9 KiB
spmenu
What is spmenu?
spmenu is an X11 menu application based on dmenu which takes standard input, parses it, and lets the user choose an option and sends the selected option to standard output.
It is designed to integrate well with my dwm fork, speedwm.
Special features
This build of spmenu has some features written for this build. Of course if you want, this is free software so you can use it in your own build.
- dwm-like keybind array (See keybinds.h)
- Vim-like modes, including indicator
- 256 color support through SGR codes.
- Image support (from this repository)
- Option to block typing.
- Rewritten arguments, old arguments still work though.
- Border only when centered option
- Hiding each part of the menu
Other features
Note: This is an incomplete list, it's just here to give you an idea of what this build has to offer.
- Pango markup support
- Alpha transparency
- Pywal/.Xresources support
- Grid
- Colored Emoji/Font support
- Highlighting
- Right-to-left language support
- Case-insensitive by default
- Padding; useful with patched dwm with barpadding or speedwm.
- Fuzzy-finding
- Preselect support
- Line-height
- History support
- Customizable bar height
Dependencies
- libX11
- libXrender
- freetype
- imlib2
- Used for image support, can be disabled if you don't want this by editing host.mk and defining NOIMAGE
- libXinerama
- Can be disabled if you don't want/need multi-monitor support.
- tcc compiler (you can swap it out for GCC by passing CC="gcc" to the
make
command if you want) - Pango (for drawing fonts)
- If you do not want to use pango, consider my older dmenu build
Installation (most GNU/Linux distributions)
emerge dev-vcs/git # Install dev-vcs/git using your favorite package manager
git clone https://codeberg.org/speedie/spmenu
cd spmenu/
make clean install # Run as root.
Installation (Gentoo)
If you are on Gentoo GNU/Linux, you can add
my overlay which includes
x11-misc/spmenu
as well as other useful packages.
Installation (Arch)
If you are on Arch GNU/Linux, you can add
my repository which includes
spmenu
as well as other useful packages.
Images
To use an image, pipe IMG:/path/to/image
to spmenu. If you want you can specify arguments.
printf "IMG:$HOME/Wallpapers/Art/2.png\tThis is a cool image.\n" | spmenu
.Xresources values
This build allows you to define .Xresources values to load on startup. See docs/example.Xresources for a list of default values.
Scripts
This build of spmenu should work with all spmenu/dmenu scripts. Here are a few I've written/use.