CWM’s cwmrc(5) manual documents menu-cmd and menu-exec, but only briefly.
These two features can replace dmenu in a minimal X11 workflow:
menu-cmd searches configured commands.
menu-exec runs a program directly.
I documented both with practical examples:
https://codeberg.org/r1w1s1/cwm-config/src/branch/master/cwm-quickref.md
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