pmenu VS dragon

Compare pmenu vs dragon and see what are their differences.

pmenu

A pie-menu in xlib and imlib2. (by phillbush)

dragon

Drag and drop source/target for X (by mwh)
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pmenu dragon
9 26
205 1,209
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6.3 0.0
8 months ago about 1 year ago
C C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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pmenu

Posts with mentions or reviews of pmenu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-04.
  • [OC] XFiles: A modular X11 file browser (WIP)
    4 projects | /r/linux | 4 Jan 2023
    It does not have a context menu. Instead, it uses a script set in the $XFILES_CONTEXTCMD environment variable. This script must call xmenu, pmenu, thingmenu, jgmenu, or any other mouse-controllable menu; and gets as argument the paths to selected files.
  • "Weapon wheel" for X11 - alternative to rofi
    1 project | /r/i3wm | 19 Nov 2022
    sounds like a great idea actually. Check out https://github.com/phillbush/pmenu I haven't had time sadly.
  • Abysmal network performance on XPS 15
    24 projects | /r/archlinux | 24 Aug 2022
     ~ λ paru [sudo] password for ken: :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Could not resolve host: mirrors.rit.edu warning: too many errors from mirrors.rit.edu, skipping for the remainder of this transaction error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Could not resolve host: mirrors.rit.edu error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Could not resolve host: mirrors.rit.edu error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Failed to connect to mirrors.rit.edu port 443 after 8720 ms: Connection timed out :: Starting full system upgrade... there is nothing to do :: Looking for AUR upgrades :: Looking for devel upgrades error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/tryone144/picom.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomoxify.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/phillbush/pmenu.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/themix-plugin-base16.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/GreenRaccoon23/archdroid-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/simmel/urxvt-resize-font.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/gnome-colors-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/khanhas/spicetify-cli.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/BetterDiscord/BetterDiscord.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/elkowar/eww error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus-aspromauros.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/numixproject/numix-folders.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox-gtk-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/will8211/unimatrix.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/bonsai.sh.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/archdroid-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: git://github.com/schischi/xcwd :: Resolving dependencies... :: Calculating conflicts... :: Calculating inner conflicts... :: packages not in the AUR: electron15 kalarmcal python-magic-ahupp python2-appdirs python2-ordered-set python2-packaging python2-pyparsing python2-six steam-fonts :: marked out of date: dnstop python-gaphor python-swspotify :: orphans: electron14 gkill-bin ruby-hpricot ugene-bin Aur (12) 3dslicer-bin-5.0.3-2 czkawka-gui-bin-5.0.1-1 ignition-transport-8-8.2.0-2 gazebo-11.11.0-2 lazydocker-0.18.1-1 nvim-packer-git-r522.90b323b-1 paru-1.11.1-1 python-mpv-1.0.1-1 tuner-1.5.1-2 ventoy-bin-1.0.79-3 zoom-5.11.9-1 zotero-6.0.13-1
  • Is this app launcher available on KDE? What about the 3D overview?
    1 project | /r/kde | 26 May 2022
    Maybe give this a shot? https://github.com/phillbush/pmenu
  • πmenu: a pie menu for UNIX X11
    2 projects | /r/C_Programming | 25 Sep 2021
  • πmenu v2.4.0 released
    1 project | /r/linux | 25 Sep 2021
    https://github.com/phillbush/pmenu Additions of this new version: * Added submenu generation at runtime (when output spec begins with $). * Added -P option to prepend relative image paths with a prefix (#9). * Added tooltips that appear after hovering a item for one second.
  • Shod My X11 Desktop
    1 project | /r/unixart | 1 Mar 2021
    It's πmenu.
  • [shod] My X11 desktop
    1 project | /r/UsabilityPorn | 15 Feb 2021
    First, in the video, I use πmenu to change the song. A xnotify notification pops up showing the current song.
    4 projects | /r/unixporn | 6 Feb 2021
    The second is πmenu, a pie menu.

dragon

Posts with mentions or reviews of dragon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pmenu and dragon you can also consider the following projects:

xprompt - A dmenu rip-off with contextual completion

mpv - 🎥 Command line video player

xfiles - Le liste NoAds filtrano la pubblicità sul web e migliorano la tua navigazione. Scopri di più navigando sul sito web ufficiale.

warpd - A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer

imlib2-jxl - JPEG XL loader for imlib2

activate-linux - The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux

archdroid-icon-theme - Port of Google's material design icons for Android Lollipop+ to Linux (and influenced by Ubuntu Mono, Mint-X, and Numix).

applications

devoidwm - A simple X11 window manager

ranger_udisk_menu - This script draws menu to choose, mount and unmount drives using udisksctl and ncurses for ranger file manager

gnome-colors-icon-theme - A complete, multi-colored suite of themes and icons for Linux

stretchly - The break time reminder app