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1311219

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-01-09

Posts: 121

Looking for a standalone application/system menu

Most (all?)  desktop environments features some kind of application menu in the panel. But for the people running more lightweight environments (like just a tiled wm) have no reason to have an extra panel around just for the menu.

I know about application launchers, such as launchy and gmrun, but the thing I'm looking for is something that could give me a list of all "bigger" programs installed, grouped by category. Because, simply, I can never remember all stuff I've installed over the years.

So I'm thinking: there must be someone out there that has developed a standalone application menu?
Either the program could just scan the "/usr/share/applications" direcotry, or one could try to extract the menu part from a panel program, such as lxpanel?

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Looking for a standalone application/system menu

dmenu

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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Looking for a standalone application/system menu

You could try adeskmenu from AUR though it need a tray to sit in.

1311219

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-01-09

Posts: 121

Re: Looking for a standalone application/system menu

Hey, adeskmenu seem to be exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks a lot! :-)

(now just need to find out why the aur version crashes... no problem, though. seems to be other versions around that works)