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[[Image:FMenu-main.png|thumb|400px|Screenshot of FMenu]]
[[Image:Fmenu-prefs.png|thumb|400px|Screenshot of FMenu prefs window]]
'''FMenu''' is a program for [[w:Mac OS X|Mac OS X]] and [[w:Facebook|Facebook]] that sits in the menu bar (near the clock) and provides notifications about various events. In addition, it provides a menu to easily access common Facebook pages and keeps a count of your messages, pokes, events, friend requests, wall posts, and photo comments. It also features a "Quicklaunch" box which gives you immediate access to your friends' profiles (just start typing a friend's name and it will autocomplete – press enter and go to that friend's profile) , groups, and events, as well as Facebook searches (type a phrase and press enter). Notifications are issued using [[w:Growl|Growl]] and can be customized to the user's liking (including turning on/off and customizing display style). They are:
*A friend updated his profile
*A friend changed his status
*You have new pokes
*You have new friend requests
*You have new photo commentsFMenu checks for updates by default every 7 seconds (or at whatever interval you set), but checks for each kind of notification (friend details, friend requests, wall, photo comments, messages, /pokes, events) separately. Consequently each particular type of notification is refreshed once every 35 42 seconds.
'''Please note:''' this application will work with most of your friends. However, if you are not getting notifications for some friends, it probably means that they have opted out of releasing their info to applications using the Facebook API. Tell your friends to go to http://www.facebook.com/privacy.php/?view=platform&tab=all other and make sure that the first radio button, labeled ''Share my name, networks, and list of friends, as well as the following information'' is '''checked'''. Otherwise, FMenu has absolutely no way of retrieving that user's profile.
==Download==
FMenu is released under the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GNU General Public License]. Source code can be found inside the application package by going to <tt>FMenu.app/Contents/Resources/Source</tt> or checked out using [[w:Subversion (software)|SVN]] [http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=188286 from SourceForge].
Older versions can be obtained below; however they are unsupported, are generally inferior, and only provided for archival purposes.
==Installation==
==Known issues==
*If you put your computer to sleep for an extended period of time, FMenu will obviously give a large number of notifications that happened during the time that your computer was turned off the first time it updates. Make sure that the number of "sticky" notifications is not very high, because otherwise you will spend a lot of time dismissing all of them.
 *If you remove a friend while FMenu is running(or a friend disables their account, etc), you will get a notice saying they changed their profile and published a note.
There is also a [[/FAQ|FAQ]] of common questions and problems. If you have other questions or problems, please follow the instructions on the [[Talk:{{PAGENAME}}|discussion page]].
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