wmenu/README.md
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# 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 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 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).
Subscribe to release announcements on [~adnano/wmenu-announce](https://lists.sr.ht/~adnano/wmenu-announce).
## Credits
This project started as a fork of [dmenu-wl](https://github.com/nyyManni/dmenu-wayland).
However, most of the code was rewritten from scratch.