qmenu_hud

a small menu search program, similar to Unity's HUD

based on appmenu-runner, a krunner plugin for the same purpose

Currently it just runs dmenu with the menu entries obtained from dbus.

Dependencies

• cmake
• Qt6 (core, gui, dbus)
• libdbusmenu-qt6
• dmenu

Compile

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

Set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX in cmake and run make install to install it.

Two programs get compiled qmenu_hud and qmenu_registrar. qmenu_registrar is a dbus service where other programs which export their menus have to register. qmenu_hud shows all menu entries of the focused window in a searchable list using dmenu.

Usage

It was tested under Awesome WM on Arch Linux mostly with KDE applications. To enable it for KDE4 applications, install appmenu-qt4. It works out-of-the-box in KDE5/Qt5 applications. appmenu-qt5 breaks it.

Set a global keyboard shortcut for qmenu_hud. Refer to the documentation of your WM or DE how to do that. Now you have to start the registrar dbus service by executing qmenu_registrar.

You can add qmenu_registrar to the startup of the graphical environment, e.g. .xinitrc:

qmenu_registrar &
konsole &

exec awesome

All menubars should now be hidden and you can press the global shortcut to start qmenu_hud and get a searchable list of all menu entries.

Experimental GTK support

Experimental support for GTK was added. Be happy if it works.

On Arch, install the package appmenu-gtk-module.

Start a GTK application and press the qmenu_hud shortcut, e.g. gimp:

GTK_MODULES="appmenu-gtk-module" gimp

The package provides a configuration file. Include it in .xinitrc:

source /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/80-appmenu-gtk-module

Similar project

i3-hud-menu: https://github.com/RafaelBocquet/i3-hud-menu