Thanks to Stuart Henderson for walking me through this.
jgmenu is a lightweight, highly configurable menu application that wasoriginally developed for openbox and tint2.
https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu I've tested for several weeks using x11/menu-cache, openbox, tint2 anddid a quick test in cwm (started jgmenu_run from .xsession).
Soliciting critique and testing on other WM's. See attached -- J. Scott Heppler
jgmenu.tar.gz
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