I use dmenu as my main UI, not just dmenu_run.

Super+Space opens a small menu script that launches apps and system actions (WiFi, reboot, shutdown),
all keyboard-driven via sxhkd.

No panel, no mouse menus, WM-agnostic.

#!/bin/sh

ROOT=doas

# Open a terminal (st) with the given title and command
# example: st -t terminal_title -e command 
term() {
 st -t "$1" -e "${@:2}"
}

choice=$(printf "%s\n" 
 "Browser" 
 "Terminal" 
 "IRC" 
 "Mail" 
 "PDF" 
 "Editor" 
 "Files" 
 "Mixer" 
 "WiFi" 
 "Bluetooth" 
 "Reboot" 
 "Shutdown" |
 dmenu -i -l 12 -p "Menu" 
 -fn "Iosevka Term-11" 
 -nb ' #000000' -nf ' #ffffff' 
 -sb ' #005f87' -sf ' #ffffff')

case "$choice" in
 Browser) firefox ;;
 Terminal) term st tmux ;;
 IRC) term senpai senpai ;;
 Mail) term mutt mutt ;;
 PDF) pdf-open.sh ;;
 Editor) geany ;;
 Files) term fff fff ;;
 Mixer) term alsamixer alsamixer ;;
 WiFi) term wifitui "$ROOT" wifitui ;;
 Bluetooth) blueman-manager ;;
 Reboot) "$ROOT" /sbin/reboot ;;
 Shutdown) "$ROOT" /sbin/poweroff ;;
esac