Aeonium Menu

Warning

This project is under heavy development. Many features are incomplete and things will break often. Use at your own risk.

Aeonium Menu is a ring-style application launcher, inspired by tools like rofi and dmenu. Unlike traditional linear menus, Aeonium presents shortcuts in a circular layout, making it natural to navigate with a mouse, trackball, or encoder knob.

Keyboard-only usage is also supported for minimal setups, but not recommended.

The name of this project is taken from flowers of the same name.

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Build Instructions

Note

The main binary expects the GUI binary to be at the path ~/.local/share/aeonium which is why installation is required before usage and testing. If you wish to clean everything simply delete $(BIN_INSTALL_DIR)/aeonium-menu, ~/.local/share/aeonium/ and ~/.config/aeonium/ if any of those were created.

Ensure BIN_INSTALL_DIR in the Makefile points to a value in $PATH.

Build all binaries:

make build

Install and run:

make install && aeonium-menu

Usage

Warning

All key binds are currently hard-coded. Configuration is not yet implemented.

Requirements

• The user running the application must be added to the input group to allow global key bind and scroll detection through libinput.
• Add your .desktop shortcuts to ~/.config/aeonium-menu/shortcuts/ (Fallback to ~/.local/share/applications)

Current controls:

Modifiers (must be held):

• Ctrl
• Shift

Menu activation:

• F9: Move down
• F10: Move up
• Scroll with the mouse wheel or encoder knob

Logo Credits

Designed by somdu77a:

• behance.net/somdu77a
• x.com/somdu77a