xstarter
Application launcher for Linux (by lchsk)
xprompt
A dmenu rip-off with contextual completion (by phillbush)
| xstarter | xprompt | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | |
| 47 | 97 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
xstarter
Posts with mentions or reviews of xstarter.
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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.
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Looking for single line terminal (like dmenu with shell completion). Does that exist?
Have a look at xprompt
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How to make dmenu support input method
xprompt can do this, but it has a lot of change seems hard for me to learn...
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Can't use fcitx input chinese on dmenu?
If you want, you can try xprompt, my fork of dmenu that supportx X input methods.
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| Weekly Workshop 2021-01-22
Hello, I just released a new version of xprompt, my dmenu-like program. This version adds undo/redo support and improved input method support.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xstarter and xprompt you can also consider the following projects:
jgmenu - An X11 menu
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
flex-launcher - A customizable HTPC application launcher for Windows and Linux
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement [Moved to: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi]
mandown - man-page inspired Markdown viewer
dafmenu - D And Fzf menu. A custom build of dmenu with fzf-like functionality, plus a collection of scripts utilizing its features.
winrun - Simple Windows Executable to run commands from a file.
pmenu - A pie-menu in xlib and imlib2.
cpaint - https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220220.html
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar