8menu

README

8menu

what?

8menu is a simple menu utility inspired by the behavior of Plan9's 9menu utility. it's written in go and uses fyne to provide a cross-platform gui.

why?

this project was created because there was no version of 9menu available for apple silicon, and a thing at work came up where a tool like this would be useful.

usage

to use 8menu, simply run the program and provide a list of menu items as command-line arguments. each menu item should consist of a label and a command, separated by a space.

example:

8menu "item 1" "echo hello" "item 2" "echo world" "item 3" "echo fyne"

this will create a menu with three items, labeled "item 1", "item 2", and "item 3", each of which will execute the corresponding shell command when clicked.

to exit the menu, simply click the "exit" button or close the window. building

download

to download a precompiled binary, click here: https://github.com/donuts-are-good/8menu/releases/latest

build

to build 8menu from source, you will need to have go installed. once you have these dependencies installed, you can build 8menu like this:

go build

this will create a binary file called 8menu in the current directory. license

8menu is distributed under the mit license. see the license file for more information.

license

mit license 2023 donuts-are-good https://github.com/donuts-are-good