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dmenu - dynamic menu
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dmenu is a generic and efficient menu for X. 


Requirements
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In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files.
Pasting the X selection to dmenu requires the sselp utility at runtime.


Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dmenu is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default).

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

    make clean install


Running dmenu
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See the man page for details.