| Title: Port of the week: pmenu
Author: Solène
Date: 12 March 2021
Tags: openbsd
Description:
# Introduction
This Port of the week will introduce you to a Pie-menu for X11,
available on OpenBSD since 6.9 (not released yet). A pie menu is a
circle with items spread in the circle, allowing to open other circle
with other items in it. I find it very effective for me because I am
more comfortable with information spatially organized (my memory is
based on spatialization). I think pmenu was designed for a tablet
input device using a pen to trigger pmenu.
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# Installation
On OpenBSD, a pkg_add pmenu is enough, but on other systems you should
be able to compile it out of the box with a C compiler and the X
headers.
# Configuration
This part is a bit tricky because the configuration is not obvious.
Pmenu takes its configuration on the standard input and then must be
piped to a shell.
My configuration file looks like this:
```pmenu configuration file
#!/bin/sh
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