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The first release in five years, and the first one signed and notarized by Apple: it opens without Gatekeeper warnings and the Homebrew cask works again.

Added

  • Menu bar icon with Show, Settings, Launch at Login and Quit.
  • Settings window (⌘ ,): General for the hotkey and terminal, Appearance for bar position, opacity, colors, font and size, with Reset to Defaults.
  • The bar can sit at the top or bottom of the screen; -b/--bottom picks the bottom for a single run.
  • System Settings panes show up as results: disp opens Displays, net opens Network.
  • Apps in ~/Applications and in symlinked folders (nix-darwin, home-manager) are found too.
  • Enter runs what you typed as a shell command when nothing matches; Shift Enter does it even when something matches.
  • Optional listing of command-line programs from your $PATH, opened in Terminal, iTerm2, Ghostty, Alacritty, kitty, WezTerm or a custom command.
  • --no-custom for scripts that should only accept items from the list.
  • --exit / --no-exit to choose whether dmenu-mac quits after a selection.
  • Paste and the usual editing shortcuts in the search field.

Changed

  • Requires macOS 13.5 or later (was 10.13).
  • The launcher no longer steals focus: the app you were in stays in front and gets the keyboard back as soon as the bar closes.
  • Started from a shell or a hotkey daemon such as skhd, dmenu-mac exits after a selection or Esc instead of staying around.
  • Esc on a piped menu prints nothing and exits with status 1, like dmenu.
  • Piped input is read until EOF and decoded as UTF-8, so long lists and non-ASCII items work.
  • The bar stays above the Dock and below the menu bar.
  • Results draw faster.
  • The dmenu-mac command-line wrapper no longer needs python3.
  • The hotkey is handled by KeyboardShortcuts instead of the unmaintained DDHotKey.
  • No longer sandboxed, which is what allows running shell commands and reading the real ~/Applications.

Fixed

  • Crash when pressing Tab with no results, and an infinite recursion while editing the search field.
  • Search text color is applied to the placeholder and while editing.
  • The search field is cleared when the window hides.
  • The Settings window always comes to the front.
  • Version numbers in the app bundle.

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/oNaiPs/dmenu-mac/compare/0.7.2...0.8.0

Source: README.md, updated 2026-09-28