XMenu

1.9.10

1.9.10

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XMenu 1.9.9 under Catalina does not show all items in folders Applications, Utilities.

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Does it work with Sierra?

Does this work on 10.11 El Capitan?

Could not figure out how the heck to make this work. When clicking app, all I see is an app window. Where are the preferences for this app. They do not show up as a sub menu in Mavericks. Any help?

Mountain Lion's Notification Center has really screwed up the easy accessibility of XMenu and Spotlight. Now the Notification Center is the farthest right menubar icon, and Spotlight's now to the left of XMenu! Even after using a hack to get rid of the useless and annoying Notification Center, the Spotlight icon is still to the left of XMenu, which sucks because I use Spotlight ten times more frequently than XMenu but can no longer just sweep my index finger to the upper-right corner of the Track Pad to access it — now I have to apply care and precision to hit the Spotlight icon without accidentally clicking one of the XMenu icons instead. Mr./Ms. Developer, could you please find some way to re-engineer Xmenu so its icons can be placed just to the left of the Spotlight icon for those of us who’ve nuked the Notification Center? Pretty please?

I am trying to delete xmenu from my iMac. When dragging the application folder to the trash, I receive the message "xmenu can't be moved to the trash because it's open". Can't see where it's open anywhere, I've never used it and no longer want it on my system. Can anyone help?

I've used XMenu for many years, because it's provided exactly the interface I want to access apps and other stuff. But 1.9.2 brings what is, for me, a huge disadvantage. It no longer places its menus close to the right edge of the menu bar, where they're always accessible. Instead, it places them to the left of all (?) other menu extras. This usually has them hidden behind application menu items on my little 1280x800 MacBook screen. That means I have to switch to Finder or some other menu-light app before I can get access. For Snippets, it's deadly, as I can no longer easily paste them where I want because of having to switch out of the target application. Try as I might, I can't get them to move to the right. I sorted XMenu to first position in my Login Items pref and logged out/in, no joy. The DEVONtechnologies XMenu forum has a similar issue posted April 1 by theorg, asking for advice/fix, with no response after a week. I'll be trying to find 1.9.1 and reinstall. Advice: if you have a small screen, stick with 1.9.1.

DOWNLOAD NOTE: Direct download link for XMenu 1.9.2: http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/XMenu.app.zip because as of 7:00 AM on March 20, the version downloading from this MacUpdate link is still 1.9.1. XMenu is a GREAT free app that gives you super-fast, easy access to your files and apps, and I'm thrilled that DEVONtechnologies continues to develop it. I've been using it for years, but previous versions became too slow — I had to retire the Applications menu and replace it with Himmelbar because it started taking too long to open under OS 10.6.3+. Thankfully, version 1.9.2 was rewritten as 32/64-bit, so now it’s snappier by perhaps 15-20%. So, I re-rate it at 4.5 stars. The only things that could make it better would be a color preference for the menus, and even speedier operation of the Applications menu. But asking that of such a generous developer would be greedy!

I've been using XMenu for a few years and think it's a really great old app. However, as mentioned in my 7/15/10 review below, its v. 1.9.0 Applications menu had simply become t o o d a r n s l o w to render after clicking its icon. So, now I use Himmelbar as an Applications launcher and XMenu's Home and Snippets menus for those functions because they work better than any of the other 12 or so such apps available. However, I just discovered that XMenu was updated to v. 1.9.1 in November 2010 after nearly 2 years of neglect, so I was hopeful that Devontechnologies had modernized it. But after trying it today, I was very disappointed to discover that it hadn't become even the slightest bit quicker, and in fact hadn’t improved one jot. The update’s description said that they’d added an alternate menu accessible by control-clicking one of its icons, but v. 1.9.0 already had that functionality, and I’ve been using it for more than 2 years! So I don’t know what the heck they were thinking when they made that statement. So unfortunately, XMenu is STILL dying, and will continue to die until its developer rewrites it from the ground up to take advantage of several Leopard and Snow Leopard technologies that its current version simply ignores, making it one ulcerously slow waste of time. Shame, really.

I've been using this little gem for several years now without any issues. xMenu is extremely handy and useful.....a most valuable 'freebie'. DEVONtech puts out some really stellar software. xMenu's version 1.9.1 release notes are contained in a version history pdf file included with the download. Here's what's new and improved: VERSION HISTORY 1.9.1 NEW Control-clicking on XMenu items opens the alternate menu. NEW Italian and Spanish localizations. Improved New application icon. Fixed Support for plain text snippets. Required Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Looks like those who are still running OS 10.4 or 10.3.9 are out of luck with this version.

I hope I'm wrong about this, but it seems like this developer has abandoned XMenu. That would be a shame because it's a very fine app, and the only thing keeping it from greatness is its sluggishness. I think an effort to update XMenu for Snow Leopard would bring it back from the dead. Currently, a click on the XMenu 'Applications' menubar item results in a 3- to 6-second delay while it reads everything in the Applications folder before displaying them in a drop-down menu. If you click it again a short time afterward the delay is gone, but just a little while later it's back to its slothful ways. I understand that this lethargy is partially caused by the large number of apps on my MacBook, but other such apps are a lot snappier than XMenu, like OpenMenu X, which was recently updated to work better on Snow Leopard, and which I now have to use instead of XMenu because it works almost instantaneously. Nevertheless, I'd jump right back aboard the XMenu bandwagon if it could be updated to work as quickly as other Snow Leopard menubar launchers.

Help ! It is apparently running (according to Activity Monitor), but I cannot see a menubar icon for XMenu so I can access it or set preferences. Help !

Nice! Bravo! Free? Wow! My advice to everyone who suffers from Dock-Overcrowdedness is to to remove all icons from their Dock and put everything in custom XMenu categories/folders. Now, only your active apps are in the Dock, and everything is in XMenu, neat and organized. My only wish would be a choice to put XMenu to the right, a la OS 9, but other than that, it rocks! (Now, if only someone would make the Dock like the Task Bar to reflect all open documents. I know it's heresy, but it's the one thing Microsoft got right.)

Unusable because I can't find the preferences to configure it, even after reading through the "Read Me." Also, can't figure out how to quit and get rid of it. I'll have to go kill the process from within Terminal.....?

okay.. make an auto-update feature in it now.. i keep on updating this application and i'm getting tired of it ;) i think this is my fifth time updating :) please make it check for updates every once in a while.. PLEASEEEEE!

Can't live without it.. I installed it on all of my friends' macs (that is, those who run 10.3). I'd appreciate better looking & color icons for the menubar, though (I know, one can do it by himself but it would be more convenient for everyone if they were installed from start)

This looks to be a promising utility if they fix one major bug; it only runs on 10.3 They even went so far as to have the software tell you it require 10.3 when you launch it. There is no reason for it to not support 10.2 except for pure laziness on the part of the developer.