i3menu 2.0.4

a set of menus based on Rofi or dmenu to interact with i3wm

Introduction

i3menu provides a useful set of menus based on Rofi and dmenu to interact with i3wm.

Installation

i3menu can be installed with

$ pip install i3menu

This will add 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

Usage

You can use i3menu directly from the command line:

$ i3menu --help

or:

$ i3menu window_actions

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

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.

Changelog

2.0.4 (2016-02-27)

• move from console_scripts to script, cli.py -> i3menu, improve README [giacomos]

2.0.3 (2016-02-26)

• fix a typo that prevented to use the package without rofi installed [giacomos]

2.0.2 (2016-02-26)

• fix an error with missing history by adding a MANIFEST.in [giacomos]

2.0.1 (2016-02-26)

• nothis to see here [giacomos]

2.0 (2016-02-26)

• major code restyle

• add all the i3-msg commands

• major improvement of the command line interface

• use both rofi and dmenu as menu providers

• name changed: i3-rofi -> i3menu [giacomos]

1.0 (2016-02-18)

• Initial release

• included menus are: go_to_workspace, move_window_to_workspace, move_window_to_this_workspace, move_workspace_to_output, rename_workspace, window_actions, workspace_actions [giacomos]