compiz-boxmenu(1)

💖 compiz-boxmenu 💖

okay bestie, listen up — this is the manual page for compiz-boxmenu, a member of the General Commands Manual family. she's a little icon and she's here to help you boss your menus around. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

compiz-boxmenu — the girl who controls Compiz Boxmenu 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

compiz-boxmenu [ -h ] [ -m FILE ] [ -p ]

like... that's it. three whole flags. she's low maintenance, she's efficient, she ate 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so compiz-boxmenu is the main D-Bus client for compiz-boxmenu-daemon. yeah. the daemon does the heavy lifting in the back, and this one is the face of the operation, the main character fr fr.

she shows you different menus depending on whatever FILE you point her at. different file, different menu. it's giving customizable. it's giving options. ✨

AND — and this is the part I'm obsessed with — she can also make the menu into a window that just... stays around? like after you clicked a menu entry to launch a program? yeah. it lingers. it does not leave. it has separation anxiety and honestly? relatable 😭

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay so real talk: if you give her no options at all, compiz-boxmenu will just show you the menu stored in $HOME/.config/boxmenu/menu.xml or /etc/xdg/compiz/boxmenu/menu.xml. no thoughts, just vibes, just the default menu 🍓

• -h — show help options. the classic "help me help you" moment 🫶
• -m FILE, --menu[=FILE] — use FILE instead of the default menu file. you're the boss, you pick the file, she respects it 💅
• -p, --pin — PIN the root menu as soon as it's generated or retrieved. yes, immediately. she does not wait. she does not hesitate. pin it. periodt ⭐

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by ShadowKyogre. give her her flowers, she earned them 🌸

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💀 HISTORY 💀

...this section is literally empty bestie. it's giving blank canvas. it's giving "no lore to report". we move on 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these too, they're all part of the same little found family:

• compiz-boxmenu-daemon(1)
• compiz-boxmenu-editor(1)
• compiz-boxmenu-dlist(1)
• compiz-boxmenu-dplist(1)
• compiz-boxmenu-vplist(1)
• compiz-boxmenu-wlist(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this was Compiz Boxmenu 1.1.12, dated Nov 22, 2014 — yeah she's a vintage queen and she still slays. mwah, go forth and manage those menus 🎀✨💅