wmenu

wmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for Sway and wlroots based Wayland compositors. It provides a Wayland-native dmenu replacement which maintains the look and feel of dmenu.

Installation

Dependencies:

cairo
pango
wayland
xkbcommon
scdoc (optional)

$ meson setup build
$ ninja -C build
# ninja -C build install

Usage

See wmenu(1)

To use wmenu with Sway, you can add the following to your configuration file:

set $menu wmenu-run
bindsym $mod+d exec $menu