pmenu VS xprompt

Compare pmenu vs xprompt and see what are their differences.

pmenu

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

xprompt

A dmenu rip-off with contextual completion (by phillbush)
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pmenu xprompt
9 4
205 97
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6.3 0.0
8 months ago over 1 year ago
C C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

xprompt

Posts with mentions or reviews of xprompt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-22.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)

imlib2-jxl - JPEG XL loader for imlib2

rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement [Moved to: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi]

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

dafmenu - D And Fzf menu. A custom build of dmenu with fzf-like functionality, plus a collection of scripts utilizing its features.

devoidwm - A simple X11 window manager

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar

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

xstarter - Application launcher for Linux

unimatrix - Python script to simulate the display from "The Matrix" in terminal. Uses half-width katakana unicode characters by default, but can use custom character sets. Accepts keyboard controls while running. Based on CMatrix.

xroach - Classic xroach game for X11