Morgan AldridgeJul 29, 2025

I've released a minor update to my #xpomodmenu #X11 collection of utilities (a menu, timer window, and 'bell' daemon) which provides basic #pomodoro functionality. It's wrapped around @seninha's #pomod (you'll want my latest patches for it) and #xmenu tools:

https://github.com/morgant/xpomodmenu/releases/tag/0.3.1

What's changed? Reduced flickering of the timer window.

I maintain this for my own use under #OpenBSD with #MLVWM and doubt it's of interest to anyone else.

Release 0.3.1 · morgant/xpomodmenu

0.3.1 - 2025-07-29 Fixed: xpomoinfo: Reduced flickering by using tput(1) to move cursor and write over window content instead of blanking entirely before redrawing

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XMenu is a free utility from us that lets you quickly access apps, files and folders, your home directory, or even small text snippets from your menu bar. It’s a handy little tool to save you time navigating around your Mac. We show you a few little tricks on how to interact with the menus. #xmenu #freeware #productivity #mac https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250428-interact-xmenu-items
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XMenu : vos applications et dossiers accessibles depuis la barre des menus de macOS http://dlvr.it/TFdlXy #XMenu #macOS
XMenu : vos applications et dossiers accessibles depuis la barre des menus de macOS

Pourquoi encombrer son écran de fenêtres quand on peut parcourir ses dossiers depuis la barre des menus de macOS ? XMenu est un petit utilitaire gratuit qui met à portée de clic vos applications et dossiers les plus utilisés. L’application n’est pas ...

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Show threadMorgan AldridgeOct 6, 2023

@seninha Certainly a little inspiration for keeping `mlvwm-message`/`mlvwm-alert`/`mlvwm-confirm` dead-simple.

Beyond that, one thing that frustrates me about #MLVWM, and the ancient version of #FVWM it was forked from, is that menu configurations are static. I like your implementations of #xmenu & #pmenu piping menu definitions around dynamically.

I'll likely add a 'DynamicMenu' command, or something like that, which provides similar functionality... (1/n)

Morgan AldridgeOct 5, 2023

Lately, I've been very inspired by @seninha's #X11 tools, especially #xmenu, #xfiles, and #xnotify:

https://github.com/phillbush

They're such a refreshing return to the core #UNIX #philosophy.

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Lucas de SenaJul 14, 2023

I'm implementing file browsing on #xmenu, the menu system for #X11.

It turned out to be really simple to implement: it just list the entries in a directory and create items for them.

And since I use XMenu as the menu system for #xfiles, I can also browse the file system on the menu while browsing the file system on the file manager (yo dawg!).

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Sad_yahskaJan 25, 2021
Installed #xmenu but couldn't get #xrootclick to work so used #gesture_manager_x instead.
Show threadFiXato (fallback)Mar 28, 2019
@Truck
yeah, I had seen that whiptail option, and did consider that too.
dmenu looks interesting, at least for Linux systems running X; for macOS not so much, unless #xmenu is a decent drop-in replacement for that (though it doesn't seem to have a #Homebrew formula...)