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.
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Best Regards,
Tom Schwindl