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dmenu patches (last tallied 2024-09-27) - Coggle Diagram
dmenu patches
(last tallied 2024-09-27)
presentation
font
bidi
Adds support for right-to-left languages such as Hebrew, Arabic and Farsi
allow color font
Also known as the color emoji patch, allows font glyphs that contains colors
color emoji
Enables colour emoji by removing an Xft safeguard (requires the libxft-bgra library)
look and feel
border
Adds a border around the dmenu window
emoji-highlight
Adds a different look and feel for list options with left hand emojis that have a different background colour when selected
fuzzyhighlight
Highlights characters of entry items that fuzzy matches the input (used with the fuzzymatch patch)
highlight
Highlights characters of entry items that matches the input
morecolor
Adds a single additional colour scheme for highlighting entries adjacent to the selected item
numbers
Adds text which displays the number of matched and total items in the top right corner of dmenu
scroll
Adds support for text scrolling (rather than adding ellipsis)
symbols
Allows for the < and > symbols, indicating too many options, to be replaced
alpha
Adds translucency to the dmenu window while keeping the text opaque
date
Adds a date/time row when listing items using multiple lines
bar height
Mimics the bar height patch for dwm; allows for the height to increased beyond the font height
colored caret
Adds support for using a different colour for the dmenu caret
powerline
Draws powerline separators between dmenu items
color themes
dracula
gruvbox
solarized
xtheme
Scripted xresources theme management system for dmenu
multi-line
line-height
Allows for the height of dmenu lines to be increased
lines below prompt
Duplicate of vertfull
listfullwidth
Duplicate of vertfull plus optionally removes the prompt colour
vertfull
By default dmenu indents items at the same level as the prompt in list view, this patch removes that indent
grid
Allows dmenu entries to be listed as a grid
interaction
case-insensitive
Makes case-insensitive matching the default behaviour
gridnav
Adds the ability to move left and right through a grid (for use with the grid patch)
mouse support
Adds basic mouse support (e.g. click to select)
navhistory
Adds the ability for history navigation for previously selected items
password
Allows dmenu to be used for password input
prefix completion
Changes the behaviour of matched items and the Tab key
preselect
Allows options to be preselected based on index
reject no match
Prevents typing in text that would result in no matching item
restrict return
Guarantees that dmenu will only output one item and that the item was read from standard in
ctrl+v to paste
Adds Ctrl+v to paste (in addition to Ctrl+y)
no default select
Allows for moving in both the text and options when using grid + gridnav
no input
Allows for dmenu to open with no prompt
no escape
Prevents the escape key from exiting dmenu
vi mode
Adds a mode where vi-like keybindings can be used to move around and edit text
positioning
center
Adds a command line option -c to center dmenu on the screen
topbar
Adds a command line option -t to force topbar
xyw
Allows the position and width of dmenu to be controlled via command line arguments
barpadding
Adds horzontal and vertical padding between dmenu and the monitor edge, mimicing the barpadding patch for dwm
functionality
input / output
dynamicoptions
Allows for the options to be dynamically updated during runtime
incremental
Makes dmenu output the current text each time a key is pressed
json
Adds support for reading options from json-files
multi-selection
Delays outputting selections until the final return is entered
non-blocking stdin
Makes dmenu read stdin in a non blocking way, making it wait for input both from stdin and from X
pipeout
Allows the selected text to be piped back out with dmenu
printindex
Quotation forthcoming
printinputtext
Adds a flag to ignore selection and output the input text instead
separator
Similar to the tsv patch, but doesn't output the displayed text
tsv
Split input lines at first tab character and only display first part, but it will perform matching on and output full lines as usual
tmenu
Duplicate of the tsv and separator patch
tsv-alt
Variant of the tsv patch that behaves similarly to the separator patch
matching
highpriority
Makes dmenu sort the search result so that high priority items are shown first
fuzzymatch
Allows non-consecutive portions of the text to be matched
instant
Makes dmenu select an item immediately if there is only one option left
no sort
Adds option to disable sorting of menu items after matching
misc
managed
Allows window managers to manage dmenu
xresources
Allows dmenu to be configured via Xresources
xresources alt
Allows dmenu to be configured via Xresources using arbitrary resources
initialtext
Adds an option to provide pretyped text
desktoponly
Adds an alternative to dmenu_run that only reads .desktop options
tidy
Specify the directories dmenu_run searches for executables
utilities
qalc
Turns dmenu into a calculator