From 64b8bbdc00a0fea6af5855bd56c7b92589cdfdcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lorcan <lorcantodea@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:58:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] port of the dwm statuspadding patch for dmenu

---
 config.def.h | 2 ++
 dmenu.c      | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index 1edb647..a8258e6 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 /* Default settings; can be overriden by command line. */
 
 static int topbar = 1;                      /* -b  option; if 0, dmenu appears at bottom     */
+static int horizpadbar = 2;                 /* horizontal padding */
+static int vertpadbar = 0;                  /* vertical padding */
 /* -fn option overrides fonts[0]; default X11 font or font set */
 static const char *fonts[] = {
 	"monospace:size=10"
diff --git a/dmenu.c b/dmenu.c
index fd49549..6bc6d78 100644
--- a/dmenu.c
+++ b/dmenu.c
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ setup(void)
 	utf8 = XInternAtom(dpy, "UTF8_STRING", False);
 
 	/* calculate menu geometry */
-	bh = drw->fonts->h + 2;
+	bh = drw->fonts->h + vertpadbar;
 	lines = MAX(lines, 0);
 	mh = (lines + 1) * bh;
 #ifdef XINERAMA
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	drw = drw_create(dpy, screen, root, wa.width, wa.height);
 	if (!drw_fontset_create(drw, fonts, LENGTH(fonts)))
 		die("no fonts could be loaded.");
-	lrpad = drw->fonts->h;
+	lrpad = drw->fonts->h + horizpadbar;
 
 #ifdef __OpenBSD__
 	if (pledge("stdio rpath", NULL) == -1)
-- 
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