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 # wmenu - dmenu for Wayland
 
-An efficient dynamic menu for supported Wayland compositors (requires
-`wlr_layer_shell_v1` support).
+An efficient dynamic menu for Sway and wlroots based Wayland compositors
+(requires `wlr_layer_shell_v1` support).
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ $ ninja -C build
 
 See wmenu(1)
 
+To use wmenu with Sway, you can add the following to your configuration file:
+
+```
+set $menu dmenu_path | wmenu | xargs swaymsg exec --
+bindsym $mod+d exec $menu
+```
+
 ## Contributing
 
 Send patches and questions to [~adnano/wmenu-devel](https://lists.sr.ht/~adnano/wmenu-devel).