On Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, a new System menu is available at all times, whether or not the FoxTrot application is launched. In order to avoid conflict with other keyboard-triggered actions, the FoxTrot system menu is fully configurable from within the application.

By holding the option key upon selecting the menu, an additional menu item appears to quit the System menu; this is required before updating the application.

The system menu is fully configurable in its own preference pane; the template which determines how the search string is processed by the application is set by clicking the FoxTrot icon column in templates.