kfmon VS jgmenu

- It is likely that NickelMenu and KFMon will be updated to support the Libra2 and Sage. You can use them to launch custom software like KOReader, an alternate reader that gives more flexibility to PDFs.

NOTE: Another thing that bears repeating is that on FW >= 4.17, you'll probably also want to prevent Nickel from scanning *nix hidden folders. And you'll want to tweak your config before unplugging your device (i.e., before installing this; or, if you've just upgraded your FW, during the first USB connection after the update).

Oh and step 4.( On FW >= 4.17, you'll need to prevent Nickel from scanning *nix hidden folders) from the link i sent you might be bit confusing to understand on first reading. Basicaly after you done the previous steps, before ejecting the reader you just open your config file which is /Kobo/Kobo eReader.conf , find line [FeatureSettings] , and under it paste this ExcludeSyncFolders=(\\.(?!kobo|adobe).+|([^.][^/]*/)+\\..+) . It will prevent default reader(nickel) indexing the system files in koreader hidden folder as books.

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.

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

If you want a working alternative, I use jgmenu. It's pretty light. https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu

It's jgmenu!

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

For a start menu similar to what you'd have in Windows, you can use something called jgmenu which you can read more about here https://jgmenu.github.io/. To get a start button for jgmenu, you can add a button to tint2 and bind it to jgmenu, you can select an icon, place text for it, or do both.