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39 lines
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# mew
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mew is a efficient dynamic menu for Wayland, an effective port of dmenu to Wayland.
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## Building
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In order to build mew, ensure that you have the following dependencies:
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* fcft
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* pkg-config
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* wayland
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* wayland-protocols
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* xkbcommon
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install mew
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(if necessary as root):
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```
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make
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make install
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```
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## Usage
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See the man page for details.
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## Comparison
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There are other menu programs or dmenu clones for Wayland, but there
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are a few differences when it comes to accuracy, as mew is a full accurate
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clone, while differing in the output select option due to the differences
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between X and Wayland output/monitor design.
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* [wmenu](https://codeberg.org/adnano/wmenu): A more modern dmenu clone,
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making it's own design choices (such as appearance and keybindings), not
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supporting bitmap fonts (Pango), and being fully rewritten from scratch as a
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fork of dmenu-wl.
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* [bemenu](https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu): Being a dynamic menu library
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and client program, it is very flexible, but comes at a cost of being
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unnecessarily complicated and large in codebase.
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* [emenu](https://codeberg.org/fbushstone/emenu): Personally maintained fork
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of dmenu which adds wayland support, lacking git history. It is what
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mew hard forked from due to maintainership, consistency, and tidiness.
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