As I've mentioned before , I have a set of changes I've made to dmenu to make it work better for me. I have now put my current patch online as dmenu-4.5-tip.patch in case anyone is interested. I happen to like all of my changes, but then I would. See the start of the patch for a description of what it includes (and then the documentation for the new switches in the revised dmenu.1 manpage).

I expect that I'll update this patch periodically as the main dmenu source itself gets updated, but so far the latter doesn't seem to change very often.

PS: to save the energy of anyone asking: while my patch set contains a bugfix for dmenu's handling of -m (and the manpage), I don't currently feel like breaking it out as a separate patch and then trying to send it upstream. It's too much work for too little chance of success.

Update, August 4th 2015 : The patchset linked above is now out of date, per here . My dmenu changes are now in my github repo for my version , split up into multiple commits that you can cherry-pick as desired.