Boxmenu provides a number of different menus to the compositing window manager Compiz and possibly to other window managers as well.

It is composed of a daemon that caches the different menus from various sources, following desktop standards and a number of clients to ask the daemon for a specific type of menu, clients that can be bound to different key-chords and mouse events using the Compizconfig Settings Manager.

The components are compiz-boxmenu, compiz-boxmenu-editor, a menu editor and compiz-boxmenu-{daemon,dlist,dplist,vplist,wlist}, where the specialized clients are respectively for recent documents, desktops, viewports and windows.