#1 2026-06-13 23:20:04

greenjeans

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Firemenu, yad/bash frontend for Firejail

Hey guys, so this is not one of my apps, this is the work of my brilliant buddy fsmithred, we were talking on IRC last night and he mentioned a small issue with detecting the users text-editor for manual editing of the menu file, I took a look at the script and it was just singing the song of my people, yad, bash, tiny amount of code, gui frontend for cli app and I couldn't help myself. I re-wrote it to use a yad text-info dialog rather than a text editor and added some functions. I submitted a pull request and fsmithred said it was working on his end. But caveat is: this is hot off the presses, I don't normally use Firejail or other containment methods so have no experience with them. But it's working great on my machine and I thought it might be of interest to the *box folks like me. I know there's a QT frontend for it, probably very nice and feature complete, but this is not that, if you've tried some of my other scripts you know I like simple and quick.

Here's the link to fsmithred's repo: https://git.devuan.org/fsmithred/firemenu

And this is my testing fork: https://git.devuan.org/greenjeans/firemenu EDIT: still need to update that, have made some small changes.

If anyone who uses firejail had some time to test it and offer feedback that would be awesome. You'll need yad, firejail, and firejail-profiles to run it, the last one is optional but it has a mountain of already-written profiles which is good because I don't know squat about writing one.

Last edited by greenjeans (Today 19:15:03)

greenjeans

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Re: Firemenu, yad/bash frontend for Firejail

Edited the post above with new screenies, finally finished tinkering with it and got it packaged:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … /FireMenu/

Check the readme there for details. Seems like it's handy if a person wants to occasionally sandbox an app without doing some sort of system-wide sandboxing, not something I think i'd use a lot, but I can help myself, I like to make things pretty and easy, and GUI frontends are easy to do even for somebody still learning like me.