Note for Ubuntu Karmic Koala users:

MaxMenu in GUI mode will now also run on Karmic. I have completely converted the
scripts to support Dialog/Zenity and removed all support for obsolete Xdialog.

There is a GTK bug which writes GTK error messages in the MaxMenu configuration files.
If you encounter this bug you can fix it by renaming or removing the ~/.gconf/desktop folder.
Your desktop settings (wallpaper, theme) will be lost then, you will have to reconfigure.

» MAXMENU is a software program for Linux «

The software consists of bash shell scripts that use a menu system
with dialog boxes to make recurring tasks less time consuming.

MaxMenu was last updated on Tue May 18 2010

CHANGELOG
KNOWN BUGS

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH MAXMENU:

In short: Write DVD's, rip CD's, make MP3's, convert OGG/MP3/FLAC/WMV/MP4
to OGG/MP3, Record video to AVI from TV, batch rename files, login with
SSH, run Quake and DooM, compile a kernel, create an initrd ramdisk,
check your filesystems, manage bootservices, automagically save all
partition tables, install, remove and query RPM software packages,
remove Debian 'leaf' packages. For a more detailed description see
below. The program consists of a base script, a required configuration
module, and a set of optional plugin-modules. The main programs are
maxmenu and its configuration module, maxmenu-config. The other
modules are called audio, burn, filetools, floppy, graphics, nettools,
pkgdeb, pkgrpm, ssh, system, tuner and video. The modules will
automagically be inserted in the main menu if they are installed.

DESCRIPTIONS AND SCREENSHOTS




• MAXMENU SOURCE RPM:

  - Only useful if you want to rebuild maxmenu RPMS.
  
  maxmenu-20091227-1mdv2010.0.src.rpm
  
  

• MAXMENU MAIN FUNCTIONS AND CONFIGURATION MODULE:
  
  (maxmenu, maxmenu-config)

  - These are the main packages that are needed by all modules.
  

• MAXMENU METAPACKAGE:
  
  (maxmenu-requires)

  - This is an optional meta-package for packages required by MaxMenu. If you install
    this package then every other needed package will be installed. If you don't install
    this package then MaxMenu will give warning every time a missing program is detected.
  
  

• AUDIO TOOL:
  
  (maxmenu-audio)

  - Rip en Encode CD's to MP3/OGG. Files will be tagged automatically
    if a CDDB entry was found.
  - Convert FLAC, MP3/4, OGG, WAV, and WMA files to MP3 or OGG
    files while saving original tags.
  - Feature "Tag OGG/MP3 files" will be implemented in the future.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• VIDEO TOOL:
  
  (maxmenu-video)

  - Frontend for mencoder/mplayer.
  - Transcode video files to XviD or FMP4 (DivX).
  - Record from a TV card to XviD or FMP4 (DivX) files.
  - Various options supported, like resizing, cropping, subtitle burn-in.
  - DVD-Ripping will be implemented in the future.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• CD/DVD BURNING:
  
  (maxmenu-burn)

  - Initial format a DVD+RW disk.
  - Burn data or DVD-Video folder(s) to DVD.
  - Burn data or DVD-Video ISO image to DVD.
  - Burn a bootable DVD.
  - Completely blank (nullify) a DVD+RW disk.
  - Blank a CDRW disk.
  - Burn a data folder to CDR(W).
  - Burn an ISO image to CDR(W).
  - Burn a bootable CDR(W).
  - Burn an Audio CD from WAV files. Both "Disk At Once" and
    "Track At Once" modes are supported.
  - Copy an Audio CD.
  - Create an ISO data or Video image for writing to a data CDR(W) or DVD+R(W).
  - Create an ISO Video image for writing to a DVD+R(W).
  - Create a bootable ISO image.
  - Copy a CD/DVD to an ISO file.
  - Compare an ISO data image with a CD/DVD.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TUNER:
  
  (maxmenu-tuner)

  - Tune your musical intruments.
  - Presets included for open tunings for various stringed instruments.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• FILE TOOLS:
  
  (maxmenu-filetools)

  - Batch rename files: Upper/lowercase, convert spaces, underscores,
    hyphens, dots, recursive/non-recursive option, files/folders only option.
  - Batch convert non-UTF filenames to UTF.
  - Mount filesystem image and view filesystem image contents
  - Find all big files (over 1MB).
  - View or tail logfiles or other textfiles. You can configure a list of up to 25 files.
  - Compare directory contents.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• NETWORK TOOLS:
  
  (maxmenu-nettools)

  - Continously show listening servers, and/or active internet connections with netstat.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• LEGACY FLOPPY TOOL:
  
  (maxmenu-floppy)

  - View DOS/Ext2 floppy disk contents.
  - Format DOS/Ext2 floppy disks.
  - Write a floppy disk to an image file on your harddisk.
  - Write an image file on your harddisk to a floppy disk.
  
  
  
  

• GRAPHICS TOOL:
  
  (maxmenu-graphics)

  - Batch resize, color invert, convert to grayscale, add border, for graphic images.
  - View images with Fbida. (Especially handy for viewing Photo-CD images).
  
  
  
  
  
  

• DEB PACKAGE TOOL:
  
  (maxmenu-pkgdeb)

  - Remove installed DEB leaf-packages from your system.
    You can select the packages from a checkbox.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• MANDRIVA STYLE URPM PACKAGE TOOL:
  
  (maxmenu-pkgrpm)

  - Install RPM files from a local directory with rpm packages.
  - Install available RPMS from the URPM database.
  - Remove installed packages and leaf packages from your system.
  - Search for files, summaries, headers and changelogs from the URPM database.
  - Verify installed RPMS.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• SECURE SHELL TOOL:
  
  (maxmenu-ssh)

  - Generate an SSH keypair.
  - Copy an SSH public key to a remote host.
  
  
  
  

• SYSTEM TOOL:
  
  (maxmenu-system)

  - Restart, add or remove boot services. Works on Mandriva and Ubuntu systems.
  - Check EXT and VFAT filesystems for error and/or repair the errors.
  - Compile a kernel, copy it to /boot, update bootloader configuration ,
    and create an initrd in one go. You can select different source trees.
  - Create initial ramdisks (initrd.img). Frontent to mkinitrd. (Mandriva only).
  - Add a bootsplash graphic image to initial ramdisks (Mandriva only).
  - Generate a GFX graphic menu for GRUB (Mandriva only).
  - Write all harddisk partition tables (MBR) to files and store them in a TAR-archive.
    Can also be run from the command line or from cron.
  - Search for backupfiles, selectable by extension, and remove them from your system.
  - View system info.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

All scripts are currently written and tested on Mandriva-Linux 2010.0, and on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10.

All scripst are released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE