Free popup menus software for linux

Popup Fortune is a python application which takes over your root window and displays on it output of the fortune program in boxes (or whatever program you specify).

It is very much a work in progress, but I find it enjoyable to leave running, and if you do too, great.

Popup Fortune is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Python and X are required. Python-Xlib is also needed, but I am currently including that in the tarball, since, to my knowledge, packages for that are not too common.

In addition, if you do not specify a different command, the default is fortune, so you will need that too.

DOM Menu allows developers to add dynamic, hierarchical popup menus on their web pages. The direction of the menu can either be horizontal or vertical and the menu can open (or popout) in either direction. It has both screen edge detection and < select > element detection (for browsers that cannot hide these form elements).
The styles for the menu items are contr olled almost entirely through CSS and the menus are created/hidden using the DOM (Document Object M odel).
Menu configuration is done using a custom Hash() class and is very portable from a PHP type array structure. The menus attempt to follow the look and feel of well known GUI toolkit menus.
Version restrictions:
- cannot use opposite direction to open
- opera 7 having difficulty with table (need to work around)
Enhancements:
- added support for IE 5.0
- fixed problem when submenu was deactivated and parent would highlight
- added a converter from phplayersmenu

GamesForum Menu provides a Menu Bar to allow the navigation in the different subforums.

The GamesForum Menu Button Add-On adds a new button in the Menu Bar to allow the navigation in the different subforums of the Gamesforum.it community.

Plone Drop Down Menu is a product which allows managing multilevel drop down menus in Plone.

Plone Drop Down Menu (qPloneDropDownMenu) product allows managing multilevel drop down menus in Plone. Drop down menu implemented by qPloneDropDownMenu Plone product is search engine friendly.

Add/remove Products)
-For Plone below 2.1 to use drop_down.css add line to your portal ploneCustom.css.
-You have a list of items of your top level menu, which you can edit in drop down menu configlet form. Now, to add submenu to the certain menu item, you need to add unordered list inside of top level menu item

Fedora Package Menu is a service menu for easy installation of downloaded RPMs.

Requires sudo and good configuration of sudo.

Tasty Menu project is a KMenu replacement aiming to provide the maximum usability, or at least to be a testbed for usability concepts and ideas for a future kmenu replacement.
The left part of the menu is very similar to the Novell idea (http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/preview.html): you have a search box that is always selected when the menu is opened (the search result are displayed in the leftmost listview), followed by a combobox that decides what the following listview: favourite applications (default), most used applications, recently used applications and recent documents.
The right part contains the whole kmenu and takes the aspect from KBFX (http://www.kbfx.org), the middle column contains the top level categorization (plus in the current kmenu arrangment there are also the control center, home folder and find files, but i think there should be present only categories). in the left-most listview there is the content of the category currently selected in the middle column. I think in this way even if it has the same number of items it _appears_ less huge than with a popup menu/submenu structure.
every items have two row, for the name and for the description, in order to make a more it more informative. On each selected item appears an action icon on the right, at the moment they are "add bookmark" on application icons and "remove bookmark" on favourite apps list.
The bottom buttons are the usual switch user, lock session and logout. In a first time I didnt want to put them, I tought that these function should be delegate to another applet like http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26150 , but it seems that the multiple menus concept its a thing that doesnt work very well in practice, it needs more real-world testing.
The left-most btton contains the user name and icon, and clicking on it it opens the kcm used to edit the users profile. I know it seems silly, but Its only an experiment, probably it will be merged with the switch user button.
Enhancements:
- "Add to desktop" option in menuitems
- Drag and drop from menu to desktop
- Option to set different icons sizes in the three columns
- the button text label should always be of a visible color
- most used/recently used applications list updates in realtime
- clear most used/recently used applications list
- (warning1: deleting one list deletes also the other)
- (warning2: if you use opensuse you must have kickoff reverted to classic kmenu in order to use the recently used/most used lists)
- updated russian and german translations

WMMenu project provide a popup menu of icons for WindowMaker like in AfterStep, as a dockable application. It is not as powerful as there is only one menu level, but I think it is sufficient, since you can make multiple separate menus.

The program can be run more than once at the same time, which allows as much different menus, each one described in a separate file. The description simply consists in a suite of lines containing the pixmap name and the shell command to run, with the first line giving the dock image and the menus title (will be used later). The menu automatically pops up to the right or left depending on the on-screen position.

Why:

More functional to organize program launchers when you have lots, rather than pile them around the screen like we can see on some screenshots... (I conceive its less appealing).

Usage:

wmmenu [< options >...]

-h
show help message
-m MENUNAME (mandatory)
set the name of the menu file to load from ~/.wmmenu
-g WxH
set width and height of tile
-t XPMFILE
set the pixmap used as tile
-l XPMFILE
set the pixmap used as highlight to track pointer
-O oldleaving
use old behavior for hiding the button bar: hide only when
leaving the bar, not when leaving the tile.
-O click
activate the button bar only when clicking on the tile, not
when the mouse moves in and out.
-O noautoscale
disable automatic scaling of pixmaps, that makes them fit
inside specified tile size.
-O behind
draw highlight pixmap behind icon, not above.
-O hide=N
set the time delay necessary for the bar to close after the
cursor has left wmmenu. N is specified as a strictly positive
integer in milliseconds. 1 is used by default.
-r ROWS
arrange icons in the bar on multiple rows (specified as the
number ROWS). The default is one. Icons are arranged leftmost
from upper left corner.

Fluxbox Tray Menu is a little tray menu for use with the Fluxbox window manager. It creates an icon where you can reach your ~/.fluxbox/menu menus.
Installation:
The simplest way to compile this package is:
1. `cd to the directory containing the packages source code and type `./configure to configure the package for your system. If youre using `csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type sh ./configure instead to prevent `csh from trying to execute `configure itself.
Running `configure takes awhile. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.
2. Type `make to compile the package.
3. Optionally, type `make check to run any self-tests that come with the package.
4. Type `make install to install the programs and any data files and documentation.
5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean. To also remove the files that `configure created (so you can compile the package for a different kind of computer), type `make distclean. There is also a `make maintainer-clean target, but that is intended mainly for the packages developers. If you use it, you may have to get all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came with the distribution.
Enhancements:
- Some memory corrupted messages were fixed.