pdmenu is a simple open source console menu program.
It’s designed to be easy to use, and is suitable for a login shell for inexperienced users, or it can just be ran at the command line as a handy menu.
It was developed on Linux, and has been compiled on many other unixes.
Key Features
- Color support.
- Full-screen.
- GPM mouse support at the linux console.
- Group commands – these are menu items that execute more than one pdmenu command when selected. For example, you could make a group command that runs a program, pops up a submenu, and when the submenu closes, exits pdmenu.
- Hooks into Debian’s menu tool.
- Menus that are not active now change to a different color and lose some decorations.
- Unpark option – lets the cursor move to the selected line on a menu, to make pdmenu more friendly to speech generation software.
Website: joeyh.name/code/pdmenu
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Developer: Joey Hess
License: GNU GPL v2
pdmenu is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Small Console Menu Utilities | |
|---|---|
| fzf | General-purpose fuzzy finder for your shell |
| percol | Interactive grep tool in your terminal |
| pdmenu | Console menu program |
| sentaku | Pipe at the command line into sentaku, and it presents a full-screen menu |
| pmenu | Dynamic terminal-based menu inspired by dmenu |
| tmenu | Dynamic menu for tty devices |
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