How to Interact with the XMenus

XMenu is a free utility from us that lets you quickly access applications, files and folders, your home directory, or even small text snippets from your menu bar. It’s a handy little tool to save you time navigating around your Mac. Here we show you a few little tricks on how to interact with the menus.

Click on an item in one of the menus to open it the system default way. For example, PDFs open in Preview, folders open in the Finder, .dtbase2 files open in DEVONthink. Clicking an item in the Snippets menu pastes the content of the text file. But you can also:

• Command-click an item in any of the menus, e.g., Applications, to open the Get Info panel in the Finder and you can easily check information about it.
• Option-click a file in any menu and it will be revealed in a Finder window. This is useful for editing files in the Snippets menu.
• Click any folder selected in any menu to open it in a new Finder window. For example, if you’re browsing your Documents folder via the Home menu, you can click on a group to quickly open it.
• Control-click any menu to quickly access its source. This is useful for adding files in the Snippet or the User-Defined menu.

And if you don’t know XMenu yet, take a look at this blog article, where we introduce the utility.