dmenu

Dynamic menu.

Creates a menu from a text input with each item on a new line.

More information.

• 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

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