Welcome to menuinst documentation

menuinst is a tool which allows creating menu items or shortcuts to launch applications across operating systems.

Table of contents

• Getting started
  • Installation
  • Usage
• Define your own shortcuts
  • Minimal example
  • Specifying different shortcut names for base and non-base environments
  • Associate your shortcut with file types and URL protocols
  • Notes on Windows shortcuts
• Integrations with conda
  • Installing shortcuts from conda packages
  • Adding shortcuts to conda packages
• Reference
  • JSON configuration overview
  • Configuration schema
  • Placeholders
• Development
  • Local development setup
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • Windows