mew

mew is a efficient dynamic menu for Wayland, an effective port of dmenu to Wayland.

Building

In order to build mew, ensure that you have the following dependencies:

• fcft
• pkg-config
• wayland
• wayland-protocols
• xkbcommon

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install mew (if necessary as root):

make
make install

Usage

See the man page for details.

Comparison

There are other menu programs or dmenu clones for Wayland, but there are a few differences when it comes to accuracy, as mew is a full accurate clone, while differing in the output select option due to the differences between X and Wayland output/monitor design.

• wmenu: A more modern dmenu clone, making it's own design choices (such as appearance and keybindings), not supporting bitmap fonts (Pango), and being fully rewritten from scratch as a fork of dmenu-wl.
• bemenu: Being a dynamic menu library and client program, it is very flexible, but comes at a cost of being unnecessarily complicated and large in codebase.
• emenu: Personally maintained fork of dmenu which adds wayland support, lacking git history. It is what mew hard forked from due to maintainership, consistency, and tidiness.