A generic visual menu program
Inspired by
GridSelect
for XMonad, I created a very similar independent
program by the name of gsmenu. As an extension, inspired by
dmenu, gsmenu also allows filtering of possible matches,
making it useful for selecting among more elements than will fit on
the screen. See the manpage for more information.
The program is written in Haskell, and is intentionally kept simple in
the interest of robustness, correctness and hackability.
Configuration, if necessary, is by editing the
GSMenu/Config.hs file.
Downloading and installation
The development version of gsmenu is always available on
GitHub, while the latest release is on hackageDB.
If you have a functioning Haskell/Cabal setup, you should be able to
install it by invoking cabal install gsmenu. Note that Cabal
installs binaries and manpages in its own subdirectory by default
(~/.cabal), and you will thus need something like the following in
your shell initialisation file in order to invoke the program or read
the manpage from a terminal:
PATH=$PATH:~/.cabal/binYou probably won’t need to set up your MANPATH (the list of
directories searched for manpages), as at least on my Debian, the
global /etc/manpath.config maps PATH entries to corresponding
MANPATH entries. If your system is different, you will need
something like the following:
export MANPATH=":~/.cabal/share/man/"