Mutate VS dmenu

Mutate

Mutate is a simple launcher inspired by ...

dmenu

dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm.

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Mutate and dmenu)

dmenu

App Launcher

28 28%

App Launcher

72% 72

Productivity

20 20%

Productivity

80% 80

Mac

29 29%

Mac

71% 71

File Manager

100 100%

File Manager

0% 0

User comments

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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.

Mutate mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Mutate yet. Tracking of Mutate 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

What are some alternatives?

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

Slingscold - Slingscold is a lightweight application launcher similar to Launchpad in Mac OS X.

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

Listary - Listary is a revolutionary search utility for Windows

Scherlokk - Mac OS X application. Simple and user friendly, Scherlokk will find your media and missed files - quickly.

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.

Alfred - Alfred is an award-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.