On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 12:40:30PM +0100, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 12:11:40PM +0100, Peter Valach wrote: > > I created this a few months ago and used it since then without problems, > > maybe it will be useful for someone here: > > > > pdmenu is a minimal, mouse-only, radial (pie) menu for X11. > > > > It reads menu items from stdin (like dmenu), displays them in > > a fullscreen transparent overlay around the current mouse cursor, and > > prints the selected item to stdout. Inspired by https://kando.menu/, > > implementing only the basic idea. > > > > The first item is shown in the center; remaining items are arranged > > clockwise in a circle, starting from the top. > > > > https://github.com/pvxx/pdmenu > > > > I know literally nothing about X programming and it is really long time > > since I did anything in C (except small patches), therefore all the > > X stuff was written by AI, so it can be improved a lot for sure; > > I welcome any patches/suggestions. > > > > Thanks for sharing. > At a glance the code doesn't look bad written by an AI. > > (Maybe there is some missing error checking in parse_color and XGrabPointer, > but I don't care to review AI code :))
thanks for looking, I did quite a few changes, but in X stuff itself only cosmetic ones :). > Maybe interesting to you, there is also another pie menu. Written by a real > human bean, made with love: > > https://github.com/phillbush/pmenu I searched before and found a few, I don't remember this one exactly; but all of them had too many dependencies and/or were specifically for starting apps. I wanted something dmenu-like, that can be easily incorporated into scripts. Like I wrote in README, I use it mainly for browser stuff (like downloading videos and images into specific directories, storing links, making screenshots, etc.), because that is the only time I have my hand on the mouse for longer time, for everything else dmenu is better ;). - PVx
