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by devenblake 2017 days ago
The default dmenu is very, very powerful though back when I first wanted to I could never figure out how to use the damn thing. Then I saw one of Luke Smith's videos using it [0] and all of a sudden it all clicked for me. Plus you can configure it pretty easily too so long as you can read C code [1].

If you wanna have a rofi-like interface (with it showing rows of results) you could use -l [lines] to show dmenu in vertical rows rather than in one row with many entries.

Just a PSA; your use case is very well suited to rofi and if I had that workflow I'd have a hard time translating that to dmenu.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8sUNHdzG8

[1]: https://github.com/devenblake/dotfiles/blob/main/src/dmenu/c...