hmenu

A rofi-style launcher for X11 that outsources everything interesting: items come from shell commands, matching comes from fzf.

A centered window with a typed filter and a vertical list. Type to filter (exactly fzf's matching — it is fzf, run with --filter on every keystroke), Return runs the selected line with sh -c, Shift+Return runs it in a terminal (hterm -e sh -c ...), Escape cancels. If nothing matches, Return runs what you typed.

hmenu                 # the default modes from config.h: win, app, run
hmenu app             # a mode by name (XDG desktop applications)
hmenu 'ls ~/scripts'  # any command; its output lines become the items

An item line may contain a tab: the part before it is shown and matched, the part after it is what runs. Two helper flags print lists in that shape: hmenu -l (open windows, activated via hmenu -a id) and hmenu -d (XDG desktop entries, with Exec field codes stripped, Terminal=true wrapped in the terminal).

Configuration is config.h (recompile), with HMENU_* environment overrides for colors, font, size and terminal — see the comments there.

hmenu tags its window _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG; the hws overview yields its keyboard grab to such windows, so you can summon hmenu and launch apps on top of the workspace overview.

Build

make            # needs libX11, libXrandr, libXft; fzf at runtime
make install    # symlink into ~/.local/bin