xboomx is wrapper for dmenu. The goal is to apply sorting commands according to their launch frequency. In other words - if you launch emacs and lxterminal all the time - they will appear in the list of commands first.

git clone https://github.com/sciunto-org/xboomx
cd xboomx
sudo apt-get install suckless-tools # provides dmenu
sudo python setup.py install

Available via AUR: xboomx.

The config file is located at ~/.config/xboomx/config.txt. It is created during the first execution of xboomx.

Here is an alternative content:

{
  "dmenu_params": "-b -i -nb black -nf orange -sb black -p \"#\"",
  "ignorelist": ["X"],
  "complete_offpath": false
}

For dmenu_params please see the manpages for dmenu.

man dmenu

The ignorelist to prevent stuff that is in your path for showing up as suggestions. Like if you type x then X might show up before xbmc.

complete_offpath will add everything that's in you ranking database regardless of availability on PATH. This is off by default.

Run

xboomx

Naturally, you have to setup a keyboard binding to this command with your window manager. For instance, on i3

bindsym $mod+d exec xboomx

To print the content of the database,

xboomx --stats

xboomx
Copyright (C) 2014-2015  Victor Häggqvist
Copyright (C) 2025 Francois Boulogne

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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For original license see the file LICENSE.org

This is a fork of https://bitbucket.org/dehun/xboomx and https://github.com/victorhaggqvist/xboomx Nowadays, the version by dehun is not available anymore, and the version by Victor Häggqvist aka snilius has not been maintained for years.

Based on snilius' version, I rewrote most of the code with modern python and enhanced the execution time.