dmenu.1 (3222B)
1 .TH DMENU 1 dmenu\-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 dmenu \- dynamic menu 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B dmenu 6 .RB [ \-bFfiv ] 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 \-F 44 disables fuzzy matching. 45 .B \-c 46 dmenu appears centered on the screen. 47 .TP 48 .B \-f 49 dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin if not reading from a tty. This 50 is faster, but will lock up X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file. 51 .TP 52 .B \-i 53 dmenu matches menu items case insensitively. 54 .TP 55 .BI \-l " lines" 56 dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines. 57 .TP 58 .BI \-m " monitor" 59 dmenu is displayed on the monitor number supplied. Monitor numbers are starting 60 from 0. 61 .TP 62 .BI \-p " prompt" 63 defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field. 64 .TP 65 .BI \-fn " font" 66 defines the font or font set used. 67 .TP 68 .BI \-nb " color" 69 defines the normal background color. 70 .IR #RGB , 71 .IR #RRGGBB , 72 and X color names are supported. 73 .TP 74 .BI \-nf " color" 75 defines the normal foreground color. 76 .TP 77 .BI \-sb " color" 78 defines the selected background color. 79 .TP 80 .BI \-sf " color" 81 defines the selected foreground color. 82 .TP 83 .B \-v 84 prints version information to stdout, then exits. 85 .TP 86 .BI \-w " windowid" 87 embed into windowid. 88 .SH USAGE 89 dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Items are selected using the 90 arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end. 91 .TP 92 .B Tab 93 Copy the selected item to the input field. 94 .TP 95 .B Return 96 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning 97 success. 98 .TP 99 .B Ctrl-Return 100 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues. 101 .TP 102 .B Shift\-Return 103 Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success. 104 .TP 105 .B Escape 106 Exit without selecting an item, returning failure. 107 .TP 108 .B Ctrl-Left 109 Move cursor to the start of the current word 110 .TP 111 .B Ctrl-Right 112 Move cursor to the end of the current word 113 .TP 114 .B C\-a 115 Home 116 .TP 117 .B C\-b 118 Left 119 .TP 120 .B C\-c 121 Escape 122 .TP 123 .B C\-d 124 Delete 125 .TP 126 .B C\-e 127 End 128 .TP 129 .B C\-f 130 Right 131 .TP 132 .B C\-g 133 Escape 134 .TP 135 .B C\-h 136 Backspace 137 .TP 138 .B C\-i 139 Tab 140 .TP 141 .B C\-j 142 Return 143 .TP 144 .B C\-J 145 Shift-Return 146 .TP 147 .B C\-k 148 Delete line right 149 .TP 150 .B C\-m 151 Return 152 .TP 153 .B C\-M 154 Shift-Return 155 .TP 156 .B C\-n 157 Down 158 .TP 159 .B C\-p 160 Up 161 .TP 162 .B C\-u 163 Delete line left 164 .TP 165 .B C\-w 166 Delete word left 167 .TP 168 .B C\-y 169 Paste from primary X selection 170 .TP 171 .B C\-Y 172 Paste from X clipboard 173 .TP 174 .B M\-b 175 Move cursor to the start of the current word 176 .TP 177 .B M\-f 178 Move cursor to the end of the current word 179 .TP 180 .B M\-g 181 Home 182 .TP 183 .B M\-G 184 End 185 .TP 186 .B M\-h 187 Up 188 .TP 189 .B M\-j 190 Page down 191 .TP 192 .B M\-k 193 Page up 194 .TP 195 .B M\-l 196 Down 197 .SH SEE ALSO 198 .IR dwm (1), 199 .IR stest (1)