jgmenu
An X11 menu (by jgmenu)
rofi
Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement [Moved to: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi] (by DaveDavenport)
| jgmenu | rofi | |
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| 12 | 1 | |
| 936 | 8,188 | |
| 0.1% | - | |
| 6.3 | 10.0 | |
| 4 months ago | over 3 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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jgmenu
Posts with mentions or reviews of jgmenu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-06-04.
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How to make Openbox look good with ease?
On the other hand, as you can read at its GitHub repo, jgmenu is a simple, independent and contemporary-looking X11 menu, designed for scripting, ricing and tweaking. It is hackable, has a simple code base and does not depend on any toolkits such as GTK and Qt, but uses cairo and pango to render the menu. It can optionally use some appearance settings from XSettings, tint2 and GTK; and it has UTF-8 search support.
- App launcher in wibar
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Help me understand the possibilities of Bash (best uses, etc)
Aside from the obvious uses - command line scripts - you can also do quite a bit with the GUI. Check out Yad for bash script GUI. X11 related tools like wmctrl, xdotool allow you to create spectacular scripts. I write and use numerous dynamic menus created with bash + jgmenu.
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A little bit confused about window managers
rofi or dmenu are often used and I can recommend them too. These programs are graphical that can be used to build your own menu with a few options and arguments. They also have some functionality to show you installed programs on your system and execute it. Qtile itself have such a functionality too: DmenuRun . And there is a menu program that will list applications like KDE startmenu with categories does in example: jgmenu
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HELP: A dmenu script that categorize applications
If you want a working alternative, I use jgmenu. It's pretty light. https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu
- Any good shutdown, hibernate, reboot, etc menu?
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I wrote a script to resize the focused window to an aspect ratio.
It's jgmenu!
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is Openbox still being developed?
It is worth adding that Johan is also the author of an excellent jgmenu. So labwc is a serious project led by a great developer. https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu
- Jgmenu: A Hackable X11 Menu
rofi
Posts with mentions or reviews of rofi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-09.
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does anyone know how can i install Rofi v1.7.0 on Fedora?
sudo dnf info rofi Last metadata expiration check: 1:22:21 ago on Tue 09 Nov 2021 07:01:29 PM AEDT. Installed Packages Name : rofi Version : 1.6.1 Release : 2.fc34 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 502 k Source : rofi-1.6.1-2.fc34.src.rpm Repository : u/System From repo : fedora Summary : A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement URL : https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi License : MIT Description : Rofi is a dmenu replacement. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a : textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be, : running an application, selecting a window or options provided by an external : script.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing jgmenu and rofi you can also consider the following projects:
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
dmenu-rs - A pixel perfect port of dmenu, rewritten in Rust with extensive plugin support
dwm_lut - Apply 3D LUTs to the Windows desktop for system-wide color correction/calibration
dafmenu - D And Fzf menu. A custom build of dmenu with fzf-like functionality, plus a collection of scripts utilizing its features.
WinCenterTitle - WinCenterTitle is a simple tool that allows you to center align the text in Windows 10 titlebars, the same way it was in Windows 8, 8.1, or even 3.1.
gxkb - 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇱🇹 🇪🇪 X11 keyboard indicator and switcher