Well, this got a little bit out of control.

A cross-platform user menu, that turned into a popup launcher and more.

There are currently three programs available: a system tray menu, a popup menu, and a popup launcher.

UMH has picked up a lot of different abilities. It can scan your network for other machines and services, publish services of its own, launch applications, open files to edit, open urls and run shell commands.

The tray menu sits in the system tray(Windows) or the menu bar (Mac). It displays the user-defined menu, as well as several auto-generated menus, like the Applications menu, and the network services menu.

Similar to the tray menu, but the menu appears in the center of the screen.

The popup launcher works similar to the built-in search on macosx. Press a button (F12), and the launcher will appear. Type your search, then use the up and down arrows to select your choice.

The options that appear in the popup launcher are not all automatically generated, they come from a file (~/.menu.recall.text). You can always find this file by searching for "Edit Recall Menu", then selecting that option from the list.

The different ways to launch a file or program are described below.

Run tray_menu.exe. This starts the tray menu, and from there you can start the popup launcher from the user menu.

For command line scripting, there is a command line program that does the same as the hotkey: universal_menu_command_line_toggle.exe. This works with AppleScript and other scripting platforms. I use it with the program "My TouchBar, My Rules" to add a touchbar button that will open and close the launcher.

There is also a program called universal_menu_hotkey_monitor this program watches for the hotkey, then runs a program that you give it as the first argument on the command line.

Use the provided build scripts, build.bat and build.sh

UMH uses urls where ever possible, and adds its own extensions. These URLs can be used in the UMH system menu, and in the ~/.menu.recall.text file.

• http://,https:// - Will open a web browser to this url
• shell:// - will run a shell command exactly as written. The shell will be cmd.exe or bash.
• exec:// - attempt to run this program. You can add simple arguments after the program name, as if you were in the shell (but in a really dumb shell)
• file:// - Open the file for display or editing using the default program
• internal:// - There are several internal commands provided, e.g. RunAtStartup
• clipboard:// - Copy the rest of this text to the clipboard(minus the clipboard:// part). You probably shouldn't put your passwords here, but I do anyway

You can also substitute in a few variables using the Go template syntax e.g. {{.AppDir}} will be replaced with the program directory.

AppDir      The directory containing the UMH program file
ConfigDir   The config and data directory, usually "~/.umh"
Cwd         The current operations directory, as stored in "~/.umh/cwd"
Command     The command that is currently being run

The recall file holds your custom commands. You can always find this file to edit by typing "Edit Recall Menu" into the Launcher, and then selecting the option that appears.

The file format looks like this

Some text that you can search for | url://something that should happen

e.g.