dmenu manual

Allow native messaging with the shell application

Copy the extension ID and run the following in your terminal.

chrome-shell install [--target=platform] [extension_ids]

Possible targets are chrome, chrome-dev, chrome-beta, chrome-canary and chromium.

Configure keyboard shortcuts

Navigate to chrome://extensions/shortcuts to configure keyboard shortcuts.

Configure the dynamic menu program

You can also configure the dynamic menu program by importing and exporting settings in the “Options” page—Right-click the dmenu toolbar button and select “Options”.

Example configuration:

{
  "dmenu": {
    "command": "dmenu",
    "args": []
  }
}

{
  "dmenu": {
    "command": "sh",
    "args": [
      "-c",
      "cat > /tmp/stdin && alacritty -e sh -c 'fzy -l max -q \"OPEN_TAB \" < /tmp/stdin > /tmp/stdout' && [ -s /tmp/stdout ] && cat /tmp/stdout"
    ]
  }
}

Make sure the commands are in your PATH.

On macOS, you can set the PATH environment variable for all services through launchctl.

sudo launchctl config user path "$PATH"