pdmenu

Pdmenu is a full screen menuing system for Unix. It is designed to be easy to use, and is suitable as a login shell for inexperienced users, or it can just be ran at the command line as a handy menu.

Pdmenu features color support and GPM mouse support at the Linux console. It was developed on Linux, and has now been compiled on many other unixes without problems.

I was prompted to write Pdmenu when I took a look at a shell script that used dialog to generate similar menus. The shell script was huge, complicated, and ugly, and had to be modified manually to add anything to the menu. I hope that Pdmenu is better.

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pdmenu 1.2.98 released with these changes

Spanish translation from Juan Ramón Jiménez García.

Posted Friday night, July 31st, 2009

pdmenu 1.2.97 released with these changes

Avoid crash when running inside screen by not re-running SLtt_get_terminfo() when returning from running a command. (This smells like a bug in slang.) Closes: #523097

Posted at lunch time on Thursday, April 9th, 2009

pdmenu 1.2.96 released with these changes

ACK NMU. Closes: #505502
Fix a few man page issues.
Switch to new format copyright.

Posted mid-morning Monday, November 24th, 2008

Download

There is a pdmenu package in Debian, and source can also be downloaded from git (git://git.kitenet.net/pdmenu).

Currently the best place to download the tarball is from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/pdmenu

Amazingly, pdmenu was my first C program!