dmenu
Dynamic menu. Creates a menu from a text input with each item on a new line. More information: https://manned.org/dmenu.
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Display a menu of the output of the
ls
command:
{{ls}} | dmenu
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Display a menu with custom items separated by a new line (
\n
):
echo -e "{{red}}\n{{green}}\n{{blue}}" | dmenu
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Let the user choose between multiple items and save the selected one to a file:
echo -e "{{red}}\n{{green}}\n{{blue}}" | dmenu > {{color.txt}}
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Launch dmenu on a specific monitor:
ls | dmenu -m {{1}}
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Display dmenu at the bottom of the screen:
ls | dmenu -b
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