Waymenu is a launcher/menu program for wlroots based compositors written in Rust using GTK v4. It supports listing/launching applications from .desktop files, or creating a menu with your own entries for scripting purposes.

Dependencies

• gtk4
• gtk4-layer-shell

Install

Assuming you have ~/.local/bin in your $PATH, use cargo to build and copy the executable to your local bin directory.

cargo install --path . --root ~/.local

Or use the Makefile to also install man pages (requires node).

make install DESTDIR=~/.local

Slow Startup

On my old ThinkPad x1 Carbon there is ~400ms delay in starting waymenu.

Turns out this affects other GTK4 apps. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4112

There is an upstream issue tracking this in the mesa projects. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/5113

Workaround is to use the cairo renderer.

GSK_RENDERER=cairo waymenu launcher