dmenu

Dynamic menu. Create a menu from a text input with each item on a new line. More information: https://manned.org/dmenu.

• Display a menu of the output of the ls command:

ls | dmenu

• Display a menu with custom items separated by a new line (\n):

echo -e "red\ngreen\nblue" | dmenu

• Let the user choose between multiple items and save the selected one to a file:

echo -e "red\ngreen\nblue" | dmenu > color.txt

• Launch dmenu on a specific monitor:

ls | dmenu -m 1

• Display dmenu at the bottom of the screen:

ls | dmenu -b