Just give me dmenu, and I make keybinds for my most frequently opened apps.

My personal system is pretty bare-bones. 

First, I truly appreciate your obmenu-generator .deb package. It makes it easy to install for others.

However, it only takes a few commands to install it from trizen...which I give on my rinky-dink website.

It's the method that I prefer.

I will readily admit that I haven't tried your .deb package in a few years, so what I'm about to say may no longer be the case...

However, the last time I tried your .deb package, It brought in a lot more dependencies than what was required for installing it straight from trizen's github and using cpanminus. It also put extra files in some places than installing it straight from trizen's github and using cpanminus.

Using the trizen/cpanminus method, the menu will normally continue to work unless there is a major update to perl...which is why manyroads lost the menu.

The command I gave updates the necessary perl module.

...but that's my preference.

If a user would prefer to use your .deb file, that's perfectly fine with me.

However, I will still prefer the trizen/cpanminus method.

However, I've personally never had issues with cpanm, the occasional fix, nor the occasional reinstallation of obmenu-generator to bring it up to date.

...but that's me.

I realize you're probably not using openbox in addition to dwm and i3, but f you ever want to fix that broken obmenu-generator menu...

1 - Open the terminal and enter the following command as root (su or sudo)...

cpanm Linux::DesktopFiles

Or use my obmenu-generator Debian repository (which is linked directly from trizen's github site) to install the Perl modules via APT.

Installing Perl modules with cpanm will leave system files that are not tracked by the package manager. This is not desirable.

Here is a direct link to the DesktopFiles Perl module .deb packages:

https://software.opensuse.org//download … sktopfiles

I have mentioned this several times before...

I realize you're probably not using openbox in addition to dwm and i3, but f you ever want to fix that broken obmenu-generator menu...

1 - Open the terminal and enter the following command as root (su or sudo)...

cpanm Linux::DesktopFiles

2 - If no icons are showing in the menu after that, enter the following command in the terminal (DO NOT use su or sudo)...

obmenu-generator -p -i

3 - Log out and log back in.

To build the environment I used a bunch of web sourced deb files for things like skype, zoom, dropbox, etc. Because this build used Miyo/ rolling as its base, I have left that on the same user space although I removed connman (due to its instability on my device) and have non-functional obmenu-generator which broke with my recent Devuan update.  Below are a few scrots to provide evidence of life...

I'll send some i3wm scrots a bit later.

Thanks to Miyo for doing the hard work....

Edit: Here's an i3wm scrot. btw. &f wiw the wallpapers are from vlad.studio