Seconding dmenu. I used dwm for a long time and dmenu was great. John Cunningham
On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 5:44 AM Tom Schwindl <schwi...@posteo.de> wrote: > On Wed Dec 14, 2022 at 8:33 AM CET, Michel Verdier wrote: > > Le 14 décembre 2022 paulf a écrit : > > > > > I prefer to run i3wm, but it has no native menu system. Like Openbox, > > > GNOME, Plasma, etc. Does anyone know of a menu system/program which > > > reads *.desktop files, and can supply categorized menus, but doesn't > > > insist on being run under a non-i3wm desktop environment? > > > > I used wmii and now dwm with dmenu (suckless-tools). It is not a popup on > > screen but prints on status bar a list of executables. You can build your > > own script to list whatever you want, so why not desktop files. You > > select one with regex which require 1 or 2 keypress. Very quick and > > small tool, suckless in fact :) > > I'd recommend dmenu, too. It pretty much is what you described. > > -- > Best Regards, > Tom Schwindl > >
