Sleek dmenu alternative written in Python and powered by curses.
Comes in different flavors:
- The
pmenuCLI, for your terminal and shell scripts. [📂 GitHub] - The
pmenu_libpackage, for your Python projects. [📦 PyPi] [📂 GitHub]
You are now looking at the pmenu command for the terminal.
The following commands will download the latest version of pmenu from this repository
and install it in your /usr/bin/ directory:
git clone https://github.com/Julynx/pmenu
cd pmenu
sudo chmod +x pmenu
sudo cp pmenu /usr/bin/
Usage:
pmenu "line1\nline2\nline3..."
"line1" "line2" "line3" ...
Bindings:
up Highlight previous option.
down Highlight next option.
enter Select highlighted option, will be written to "/tmp/pmenu".
esc Quit menu and exit with code 1.
The pmenu_fm script included in this repository is an example of how pmenu can be integrated into a bash script to implement a simple file selector.
It uses lsd, a modern ls replacement, to get the list of files in the current directory and their associated icons. The list is then passed to pmenu, which displays a menu in the terminal window.
You can highlight a directory with the Up and Down keys, and change to the selected directory or xdg-open the selected file with the Enter key. The menu can be closed with the Esc key.