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+# Shellmen
+Shellmen is short for ShellMenu and is intended to be a functional menu for terminals. Rather than needing a full gui menu for your programs you  can view and launch your programs through Shellmen. This is great for systems that don't have panel menus or for systems that have a poorly organized right-click menu.