xmenu
a x11 menu utility (by phillbush)
awesome-freedesktop
Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM (by lcpz)
| xmenu | awesome-freedesktop | |
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| 14 | 5 | |
| 287 | 126 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.3 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C | Lua | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
xmenu
Posts with mentions or reviews of xmenu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
- Bash Menu
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[OC] XFiles: A modular X11 file browser (WIP)
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.
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Suggest me an application launcher.
xmenu
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Is there a way to add widgets to your menu?
Another not centric way, but simple and fast is xmenu, which allows to use simple scripting for each row (common for any WMs): * https://github.com/phillbush/xmenu
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[Patch Idea] Right Click Behavior Like in Original FVWM?
here you go this is exactly what you want. You could reimplement this in your build or follow the suckless philosophy and use this tool.
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Where all the menu entries?
xmenu https://github.com/phillbush/xmenu and generate with xdg-xmenu https://github.com/OliverLew/xdg-xmenu, I like this style and configuration of it. It is not in lua, but idea and concept is suckless.
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Asking about can your software support RTL
Haven't tried this one since dmenu works for me, but I think xmenu might have better support for it. It's not as suckless but honestly dealing with multiple languages sucks lol
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I wrote 91menu, a better 9menu (?).
Nice. I also wrote a popup menu utility that has the same input-to-output interface as dmenu. But mine is a little more bloated: it supports input from keyboard, nested menus, icons and label/command separation.
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Xorg crashes: can't found ISO-8859-2d
The only other requirement should be xmenu
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How does DWM manage menus?
Have a look into dmenu, rofi and xmenu. They are all good at different things. The first two are keyboard driven and support a basic application menu by default. Xmenu is more like a context menu. For the most part you create the menus yourself with scripts. You can pipe stuff into their stdin and get the selected entry via stdout. Here is an example of what I use for my dwm build.
awesome-freedesktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-freedesktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-21.
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Not all .desktop files are being put in the "main menu"
Default awesome config doesn't parse .desktop files at all. Some deb based distributions modified it to use awesome-freedesktop but it's surely not an only way to get the application menu (there are stand alone apps like rofi). So first of all you should mention which way to create the menu are you using.
- best menu for awesome ?
- jgmenu in awesomewm
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Where all the menu entries?
Freedesktop.org compliant menu and desktop icons - older style, but dynamic. Not bad, but not for me. https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-freedesktop
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Personal Wallpapers
Behold the desktop icons! I present you the awesome-freedesktop module by lcpz: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-freedesktop
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xmenu and awesome-freedesktop you can also consider the following projects:
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
awesomewm-config - RAVEN2CZ: AwesomeWM Configuration, Libraries and Themes.
alttab - The task switcher for minimalistic window managers or standalone X11 session
vicious - Vicious is a modular widget library for the "awesome" window manager.
91menu - A Plan9-inspired, mouse-oriented, graphical menu, which works with the standard input.
lain - Awesome WM complements
dmenu-pango
dotfiles - :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS
moonwm - My own outstandingly named Window Manager
dotfiles - My dotfiles. Buyer beware ;)
imlib2-jxl - JPEG XL loader for imlib2
dotfiles - My desktop and WSL configuration files