DoomMenu is my personal fork of suckless dmenu, renamed all the way down to the command name. It keeps the small C/config.h workflow, but changes the feel with my fonts, colors, vi-style navigation, alpha support, centered layout, and a few quality-of-life patches.

The installed commands are:

• doommenu
• doommenu_run
• doommenu_path
• stest

make

Run a quick version check:

./doommenu -v

Edit config.mk if you want a different install prefix, then run:

sudo make install

Default install paths are based on:

• PREFIX = /usr/local
• MANPREFIX = $(PREFIX)/share/man

Pipe newline-separated entries into doommenu:

printf 'lock\nlogout\nreboot\nshutdown\n' | doommenu -p 'Power:'

Launch programs from $PATH:

doommenu_run

Useful flags:

• -b: show at the bottom
• -f: grab keyboard before reading stdin
• -i: case-insensitive matching
• -l <lines>: vertical list mode
• -h <height>: minimum row height
• -m <monitor>: choose monitor
• -p <prompt>: set prompt text
• -fn <font>: set primary font
• -nb/-nf/-sb/-sf: override colors
• -w <windowid>: embed into a window

DoomMenu follows the suckless style: edit config.h, then rebuild.

Main things to tune:

• fonts: font stack
• prompt: default prompt text
• colors: normal, selected, output, and cursor colors
• alpha / alphas: transparency
• lines: default vertical list size
• lineheight: row height
• vi_mode: vi navigation behavior
• quit_keys: extra quit bindings
• border_width: X11 window border width

This repo intentionally keeps the code close to suckless dmenu. The goal is not to become a large launcher framework; it is to stay fast, inspectable, and easy to rebuild after editing config.h.