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PStart logo PStart

PStart is a simple tray tool to start user defined applications.

dmenu logo dmenu

dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm.
  • PStart Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-11-23
  • dmenu Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-27

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dmenu videos

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dmenu: Your own Custom Script Menus!

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

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to PStart and dmenu)

PStart

dmenu

LMS
100 100%
LMS
0% 0
Productivity
0 0%
Productivity
100% 100
Note Taking
100 100%
Note Taking
0% 0
App Launcher
0 0%
App Launcher
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.

PStart mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of PStart yet. Tracking of PStart 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 PStart and dmenu, you can also consider the following products

PortableApps.com - PortableApps.com is a website offering many free, commonly used Windows applications that have been...

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

SyMenu - SyMenu is a portable menu launcher and Start Menu replacement to organize your applications quickly...

Listary - Listary is a revolutionary search utility for Windows

Portable Start Menu - Portable Start Menu - easy way to open/close applications on USB sticks

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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