dmenu Command Examples

Dynamic menu. Create a menu from a text input with each item on a new line. More information: https://manned.org/dmenu.

• Display a menu of the output of the ls command:

{{ls}} | dmenu

• Display a menu with custom items separated by a new line (\n):

echo -e "{{red}}\n{{green}}\n{{blue}}" | dmenu

• 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}}

• Launch dmenu on a specific monitor:

ls | dmenu -m {{1}}

• Display dmenu at the bottom of the screen:

ls | dmenu -b