diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/clipmenu/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/clipmenu/default.nix
index 7a47a0e3bc0..e6e4ede6ac1 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/clipmenu/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/clipmenu/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-{ clipnotify, makeWrapper, xsel, dmenu2, utillinux, gawk, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, lib }:
+{ clipnotify, makeWrapper, xsel, dmenu, utillinux, gawk, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, lib }:
 let
-  runtimePath = lib.makeBinPath [ clipnotify xsel dmenu2 utillinux gawk ];
+  runtimePath = lib.makeBinPath [ clipnotify xsel dmenu utillinux gawk ];
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "clipmenu-${version}";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/dmenu2/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/dmenu2/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d567603359..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/dmenu2/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchhg, libX11, libXinerama, libXft, zlib}:
-
-with stdenv.lib;
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "dmenu2-0.3pre-2014-07-08";
-
-  src = fetchhg {
-    url = "https://bitbucket.org/melek/dmenu2";
-    rev = "36cb94a16edf928bdaaa636123392517ed469be0";
-    sha256 = "1b17z5ypg6ij7zz3ncp3irc87raccna10y4w490c872a99lp23lv";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ libX11 libXinerama zlib libXft ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    sed -ri -e 's!\<(dmenu|stest)\>!'"$out/bin"'/&!g' dmenu_run
-  '';
-
-  preConfigure = [ ''sed -i "s@PREFIX = /usr/local@PREFIX = $out@g" config.mk'' ];
-
-  meta = {
-      description = "A patched fork of the original dmenu - an efficient dynamic menu for X";
-      homepage = https://bitbucket.org/melek/dmenu2;
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = [ maintainers.cstrahan ];
-      platforms = platforms.all;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e240d4cc5c6..87fbdcdcbfb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -17549,7 +17549,11 @@ in
 
   dmenu = callPackage ../applications/misc/dmenu { };
 
-  dmenu2 = callPackage ../applications/misc/dmenu2 { };
+  # TODO (@primeos): Remove after the 19.09 branch-off:
+  dmenu2 = throw ''
+    The fork "dmenu2" is not maintained by upstream anymore. Please use the
+    original "dmenu" instead.
+  '';
 
   dmensamenu = callPackage ../applications/misc/dmensamenu {
     inherit (python3Packages) buildPythonApplication requests;