pdmenu – full screen menuing system

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
Support:
Developer: Joey Hess
License: GNU GPL v2

pdmenu is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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