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Circle Dock VS dmenu

Compare Circle Dock VS dmenu and see what are their differences

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Circle Dock logo Circle Dock

The idea behind Circle Dock is that the dock should appear where your mouse is instead of you...

dmenu logo dmenu

dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm.
  • Circle Dock Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-20
  • dmenu Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-27

Circle Dock videos

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Circle Dock - Desktop Application Launcher for Windows

More videos:

  • Review - 2 Minutes - Show A Little Review Of Circle Dock
  • Tutorial - Circle Dock for Windows 10 - Download and Installation Tutorial 2018

dmenu videos

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dmenu: Your own Custom Script Menus!

More videos:

  • Review - j4-dmenu-desktop - Faster Keystroke Launcher - Linux DMENU i3
  • Review - A Simple File Manager Using Dmenu

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Circle Dock and dmenu)

Circle Dock

dmenu

Productivity
19 19%
Productivity
81% 81
Note Taking
100 100%
Note Taking
0% 0
App Launcher
23 23%
App Launcher
77% 77
Mac
0 0%
Mac
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, dmenu seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 22 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Circle Dock mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Circle Dock yet. Tracking of Circle Dock recommendations started around Mar 2021.

dmenu mentions (22)

  • Bspwm + Sxhkd + Polybar
    For dmenu modifications go to http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ and read about patching, or use some patched versions from github, like Luke Smiths https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/dmenu. Source: 5 months ago
  • Textual Web: TUIs for the Web
    Some features are nice to have. Give dmenu [0] a try, pipe it into other CLI utils and see how useful it can be to have drop-downs sometimes. [0] https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
  • Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment
    This is a wonderful project! I've been thinking a lot about making such a unified desktop stack for a while now; web technology has matured to the point where I think it's feasible to build a complete environment a la Smalltalk/Symbolics but with a modern feature set. Obviously this has deficiencies but like it or not the web _is_ computing for the vast majority of people and exploring/pushing its limits of user... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
  • Is there an xfce equivalent to KDE's quick launch?
    I love simplicity of dmenu and it's quite powerful with some scripts. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Request for a distro based on a list of programs for a Windows user
    Everything is a fast file search tool for windows. OP can use dmrun by suckless or plocate (cli) . I don't know if there is any comparable gui available. Source: about 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Circle Dock and dmenu, you can also consider the following products

RocketDock - RocketDock is a Mac OS X dock clone.

Keypirinha - A lightning fast and flexible keystroke launcher for Windows. No installation required (portable).

ObjectDock - ObjectDock is the most popular animated dock for Windows.

Listary - Listary is a revolutionary search utility for Windows

Winstep Nexus - The Winstep Nexus Dock is a FREE* professional dock for Windows. With Nexus, your most frequently used applications are only a mouse click away - and Nexus turns working with your computer into a fun and exciting experience.

Gnome Do - Simple, sleek, swift, smart. Do. GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items. GNOME Do is inspired by Quicksilver & GNOME Launch Box.

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