Make dmenu do case insensitive searches
January 05, 2025 —
Nico Cartron
As part of my switch to i3, I'm using dmenu to launch applications.
It annoyed me having to remember if a program was written with lower or uppercase (e.g., QOWnNotes), so I had a quick look at dmenu's manual, and sure enough, there's an option for that:
-i dmenu matches menu items case insensitively.
Modifying ~/.config/i3/config as below, then relaunching i3 with Alt+Shit+r
did the trick:
bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id dmenu_run -i
I can now search for programs no matter their case!