» 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 complicated.

It is perfect to reduce software bloat on your system. If you install this program,
you can uninstall certain GUI applications, like for instance Brasero.

MaxMenu was last updated on Sat May 12 2012

CHANGELOG
KNOWN BUGS

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH MAXMENU:

In short: Write DVD's - Rip CD's to OGG/MP3 - Convert OGG/MP3/FLAC/WMV/MP4
to OGG/MP3 - Record video to AVI from TV - Batch rename files - Login with
SSH keys - Compile a kernel - Create an initrd ramdisk - Check your
filesystems - Manage system services - Automagically save all partition
tables - Install, remove and query RPM software packages - Remove Debian
'leaf' packages - Tune your guitar etc, etc... For a more detailed
feature 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 requires 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 accessible from the main graphical menu if they are installed.

DESCRIPTIONS AND SCREENSHOTS OF THE VARIOUS MODULES

MAXMENU MAIN FUNCTIONS AND CONFIGURATION MODULE:

(maxmenu, maxmenu-config)

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

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.

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 Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and Debian Testing (Wheezy).

All scripst are released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE