path: root/README

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


Requirements
------------
In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files.
You also need libdraw, available from http://hg.suckless.org/libdraw

Pasting the X selection to dmenu requires the sselp utility at runtime.


Installation
------------
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
-------------
See the man page for details.