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Slingscold VS dmenu

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Slingscold logo Slingscold

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

dmenu logo dmenu

dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm.
  • Slingscold Landing page
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    2023-10-04
  • dmenu Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-27

Slingscold videos

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Rice XFCE4 with Avant Window Navigator (AWN) Dockbarx, and Slingscold--make XFCE look like Ubuntu!

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  • Review - Linux OS10 x64 slingscold + Android

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 Slingscold and dmenu)

Slingscold

dmenu

App Launcher
33 33%
App Launcher
67% 67
Productivity
24 24%
Productivity
76% 76
Mac
34 34%
Mac
66% 66
File Manager
100 100%
File Manager
0% 0

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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.

Slingscold mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Slingscold yet. Tracking of Slingscold 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 / 9 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 / 12 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 Slingscold and dmenu, you can also consider the following products

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

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

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Listary - Listary is a revolutionary search utility for Windows

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.

Mutate - Mutate is a simple launcher inspired by ...

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