dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.

Start is described as 'With start, the innovative launcher for macOS, you can open applications, documents, shortcuts, URLs, and folders in an instant. Say goodbye to clutter - start brings order and efficiency to your workflow' and is a application launcher in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Start for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, iPhone and Wayland apps. The best Start alternative is Vicinae, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Start are Flow Launcher, Alfred, Raycast and Keypirinha.
dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.

If you ever liked tools like Raycast and Alfred, but wanted to own them and tweak them yourself, then SOL is the tool for you. All the affordances of complex tools now made open source.

Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list.


XMenu adds one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar. They give you access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, files, and snippets. Launch any application, or insert text snippets or URLs into your email messages or Pages documents with a single...



Instantly access the information you need, without searching. Whether it’s in the Finder, email, on the web, in the cloud, a version-control system, almost anywhere. Link and retrieve it with Hook.




Fenn is a powerful, AI-driven desktop search engine for macOS that makes your files instantly searchable—including videos, audio, PDFs, Word documents, Excel sheets, and images. Just type or upload an image to find exactly where any object, person, or concept appears.

Productivity tool that allows to launch everything (e.g. switch the next song, connect Bluetooth device, set a timer, etc.) so you can stay focused on your current task.




This code provides the MenuStart plugin to nwg-panel. It also may be used standalone, however, with a little help from command line arguments.

