9menu AlternativesShells and other similar apps like 9menu
9menu is described as 'Create a menu to run commands' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to 9menu for Linux, Windows and Mac. The best 9menu alternative is dmenu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like 9menu are Yad, Zenity, easybashgui and xlunch.
9menu alternatives are mainly Shells but may also be Application Launchers or File Search Utilities. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of 9menu.- 69 dmenu alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Application Launcher
- File Search Utility
- Linux
dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.
- - dmenu is the most popular Linux alternative to 9menu.
- - dmenu is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to 9menu.
Comments about dmenu as a Alternative to 9menu
jemiHighly regarded, simple menuing system, with lots of patches available for customization.
0 Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more. It's useful for creating quick and easy GUIs for shell and batch scripting.
Yad Features
Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.
Zenity Features
Bash functions library for *BSD and GNU/Linux that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, (c)dialog, whiptail or bash builtins depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad/Gtkdialog/Xdialog installed or not and, eventually, X...
easybashgui Features
- 4 xlunch alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Application Launcher
- Linux
Welcome! This is xlunch, the coolest graphical app launcher for Xorg/X11. It requires only pure Xlib and Imlib2. It allows you to run programs, commands, or simply select something out of a list using your mouse, keyboard, or both!
kdialog allows you to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax is very much inspired from the "dialog" command (which shows text mode dialogs).
KDialog Features
display dialog boxes from shell scripts.
whiptail Features
MessagePop is a simple application designed to help you convey a message to the computer user. The program allows you to specify the message text and the other parameters from the command line.
- - MessagePop is the most popular Windows alternative to 9menu.
MessagePop Features
- 21 dialog alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Shell
- Windows
- Linux
display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode.
dialog Features
display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo).
xmessage Features
- 12 gxmessage alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Shell
- Windows
- Linux
a GTK-based xmessage clone.
gxmessage Features
- 21 CocoaDialog alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Shell
- Mac
CocoaDialog is an OS X application that allows the use of common GUI controls such as file selectors, text input, progress bars, yes/no confirmations and more with a command-line application. It requires no knowledge of Cocoa, and is ideal for use in shell and Perl scripts (or...
- - CocoaDialog is the most popular Mac alternative to 9menu.
CocoaDialog Features