dmenu.1 (3288B)
1 .TH DMENU 1 dmenu\-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 dmenu \- dynamic menu 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B dmenu 6 .RB [ \-bfiv ] 7 .RB [ \-l 8 .IR lines ] 9 .RB [ \-m 10 .IR monitor ] 11 .RB [ \-p 12 .IR prompt ] 13 .RB [ \-fn 14 .IR font ] 15 .RB [ \-nb 16 .IR color ] 17 .RB [ \-nf 18 .IR color ] 19 .RB [ \-sb 20 .IR color ] 21 .RB [ \-sf 22 .IR color ] 23 .RB [ \-w 24 .IR windowid ] 25 .P 26 .BR dmenu_run " ..." 27 .SH DESCRIPTION 28 .B dmenu 29 is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline\-separated items from 30 stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed 31 to stdout and dmenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those 32 matching the tokens in the input. 33 .P 34 .B dmenu_run 35 is a script used by 36 .IR dwm (1) 37 which lists programs in the user's $PATH and runs the result in their $SHELL. 38 .SH OPTIONS 39 .TP 40 .B \-b 41 dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen. 42 .TP 43 .B \-c 44 dmenu appears centered on the screen. 45 .TP 46 .B \-f 47 dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin if not reading from a tty. This 48 is faster, but will lock up X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file. 49 .TP 50 .B \-i 51 dmenu matches menu items case insensitively. 52 .TP 53 .BI \-l " lines" 54 dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines. 55 .TP 56 .BI \-h " height" 57 dmenu uses a menu line of at least 'height' pixels tall, but no less than 8. 58 .TP 59 .BI \-m " monitor" 60 dmenu is displayed on the monitor number supplied. Monitor numbers are starting 61 from 0. 62 .TP 63 .BI \-p " prompt" 64 defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field. 65 .TP 66 .BI \-fn " font" 67 defines the font or font set used. 68 .TP 69 .BI \-nb " color" 70 defines the normal background color. 71 .IR #RGB , 72 .IR #RRGGBB , 73 and X color names are supported. 74 .TP 75 .BI \-nf " color" 76 defines the normal foreground color. 77 .TP 78 .BI \-sb " color" 79 defines the selected background color. 80 .TP 81 .BI \-sf " color" 82 defines the selected foreground color. 83 .TP 84 .B \-v 85 prints version information to stdout, then exits. 86 .TP 87 .BI \-w " windowid" 88 embed into windowid. 89 .SH USAGE 90 dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Items are selected using the 91 arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end. 92 .TP 93 .B Tab 94 Copy the selected item to the input field. 95 .TP 96 .B Return 97 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning 98 success. 99 .TP 100 .B Ctrl-Return 101 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues. 102 .TP 103 .B Shift\-Return 104 Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success. 105 .TP 106 .B Escape 107 Exit without selecting an item, returning failure. 108 .TP 109 .B Ctrl-Left 110 Move cursor to the start of the current word 111 .TP 112 .B Ctrl-Right 113 Move cursor to the end of the current word 114 .TP 115 .B C\-a 116 Home 117 .TP 118 .B C\-b 119 Left 120 .TP 121 .B C\-c 122 Escape 123 .TP 124 .B C\-d 125 Delete 126 .TP 127 .B C\-e 128 End 129 .TP 130 .B C\-f 131 Right 132 .TP 133 .B C\-g 134 Escape 135 .TP 136 .B C\-h 137 Backspace 138 .TP 139 .B C\-i 140 Tab 141 .TP 142 .B C\-j 143 Return 144 .TP 145 .B C\-J 146 Shift-Return 147 .TP 148 .B C\-k 149 Delete line right 150 .TP 151 .B C\-m 152 Return 153 .TP 154 .B C\-M 155 Shift-Return 156 .TP 157 .B C\-n 158 Down 159 .TP 160 .B C\-p 161 Up 162 .TP 163 .B C\-u 164 Delete line left 165 .TP 166 .B C\-w 167 Delete word left 168 .TP 169 .B C\-y 170 Paste from primary X selection 171 .TP 172 .B C\-Y 173 Paste from X clipboard 174 .TP 175 .B M\-b 176 Move cursor to the start of the current word 177 .TP 178 .B M\-f 179 Move cursor to the end of the current word 180 .TP 181 .B M\-g 182 Home 183 .TP 184 .B M\-G 185 End 186 .TP 187 .B M\-h 188 Up 189 .TP 190 .B M\-j 191 Page down 192 .TP 193 .B M\-k 194 Page up 195 .TP 196 .B M\-l 197 Down 198 .SH SEE ALSO 199 .IR dwm (1), 200 .IR stest (1)