Introduction

i3menu provides a useful set of menus based on Rofi and dmenu that will help you manage you i3wm.

Requirements

i3menu requires either Rofi or dmenu to work.

dmenu is pretty easy to install:

sudo apt-get install suckless-tools

But Rofi is way much nicer. To install it follow its installation guide.

Installation

i3menu can be installed directly from pypi like this:

$ pip install i3menu

Or from source code like this:

$ git clone https://github.com/giacomos/i3menu.git
$ cd i3menu
$ make install

Whatever installation method you choosed, you will end up having a script in your local bin path, ~/.local/bin. If your $PATH is set up correctly, now you should be able to run i3menu:

$ i3menu -h

If the command is not found, please check your $PATH to be sure to have your local bin path:

$ PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin

To make this change permanent, you can add to your .profile file this:

if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"
fi

This change will be permanent at your next login.

Usage

For a complete list of the command line parameters you can check the help:

$ i3menu --help

Any available menu can be run like this:

$ i3menu window_actions

I3WM config

You can add i3menu to your i3 config. For example:

bindsym $mod+w exec --no-startup-id i3menu goto_workspace

or:

bindsym $mod+w exec --no-startup-id i3menu -m go_to_workspace

For a more complete set of examples, please take a look at my i3wm config

Credits

• partially inspired by quickswitch-i3

License

Disclaimer: i3menu is a third party script and in no way affiliated with the i3 project, the dmenu project or the rofi project.