Hi all, The UMENU2 beta is now available as a tarball, at http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/umenu2/downloads/umenu2_1_9_1.tgz .
UMENU2 is a very fast keystroke operated menu system capable of running arbitrary commands, with options and arguments, environment variables, specific current directory, and prepath (so necessary executables are on the path). I recommend using Suckless Tools' dmenu when you just need to run a program any old way (Palemoon, Claws-Mail, xterm), and UMENU2 when you need to run a program in a specific way, for instance, running LyX in a specific directory devoted to a specific book). Here are simple install instructions: 1. Back up and move away any existing ~/.umenurc and/or ~/umenu2/ 2. cd ~ 3. tar xzvf umenu2_1_9_1.tgz 4. mv umenu2_1_9_1 umenu2 5. cd umenu2/prog 6. ./umenu.py u Dependencies: * Posix * Bash or dash or another sh * Python3 No database, no YAML, no compiling a menu structure: The menu system definition is contained in a simple directory tree, as will be obvious when you run it. When installed the simple way, as described in the beginning of this email, it's capable of running up to 26 different menus (one for each letter of the alphabet). The letter u is already used as a helper for UMENU2 itself, helping you build new menus, peruse documents, and work with examples of various UMENU2 features. I've hammered this thing pretty hard, and on my computer it works exquisitely when operated "correctly", but I have a feeling there ar bugs lying around somewhere, and I know that the error handling in some cases (including trying to pull up a nonexisting menu) is a little rough and less than perfectly informative. I'd greatly appreciate feedback on how it worked and what needs to be fixed. Please feel free to get back to me with questions and comments, either onlist or offlist, and I'll quickly get back to you. Hope you like it, and don't hesitate to get back to me about it. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
