dmenu.1 (3355B)
1 .TH DMENU 1 dmenu\-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 dmenu \- dynamic menu 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B dmenu 6 .RB [ \-bfivP ] 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 .RB [ \-n 26 .IR number ] 27 .P 28 .BR dmenu_run " ..." 29 .SH DESCRIPTION 30 .B dmenu 31 is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline\-separated items from 32 stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed 33 to stdout and dmenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those 34 matching the tokens in the input. 35 .P 36 .B dmenu_run 37 is a script used by 38 .IR dwm (1) 39 which lists programs in the user's $PATH and runs the result in their $SHELL. 40 .SH OPTIONS 41 .TP 42 .B \-b 43 dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen. 44 .TP 45 .B \-f 46 dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin if not reading from a tty. This 47 is faster, but will lock up X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file. 48 .TP 49 .B \-i 50 dmenu matches menu items case insensitively. 51 .TP 52 .B \-P 53 dmenu will not directly display the keyboard input, but instead replace it with dots. All data from stdin will be ignored. 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 .TP 89 .BI \-n " number" 90 preseslected item starting from 0. 91 .SH USAGE 92 dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Items are selected using the 93 arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end. 94 .TP 95 .B Tab 96 Copy the selected item to the input field. 97 .TP 98 .B Return 99 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning 100 success. 101 .TP 102 .B Ctrl-Return 103 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues. 104 .TP 105 .B Shift\-Return 106 Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success. 107 .TP 108 .B Escape 109 Exit without selecting an item, returning failure. 110 .TP 111 .B Ctrl-Left 112 Move cursor to the start of the current word 113 .TP 114 .B Ctrl-Right 115 Move cursor to the end of the current word 116 .TP 117 .B C\-a 118 Home 119 .TP 120 .B C\-b 121 Left 122 .TP 123 .B C\-c 124 Escape 125 .TP 126 .B C\-d 127 Delete 128 .TP 129 .B C\-e 130 End 131 .TP 132 .B C\-f 133 Right 134 .TP 135 .B C\-g 136 Escape 137 .TP 138 .B C\-h 139 Backspace 140 .TP 141 .B C\-i 142 Tab 143 .TP 144 .B C\-j 145 Return 146 .TP 147 .B C\-J 148 Shift-Return 149 .TP 150 .B C\-k 151 Delete line right 152 .TP 153 .B C\-m 154 Return 155 .TP 156 .B C\-M 157 Shift-Return 158 .TP 159 .B C\-n 160 Down 161 .TP 162 .B C\-p 163 Up 164 .TP 165 .B C\-u 166 Delete line left 167 .TP 168 .B C\-w 169 Delete word left 170 .TP 171 .B C\-y 172 Paste from primary X selection 173 .TP 174 .B C\-Y 175 Paste from X clipboard 176 .TP 177 .B M\-b 178 Move cursor to the start of the current word 179 .TP 180 .B M\-f 181 Move cursor to the end of the current word 182 .TP 183 .B M\-g 184 Home 185 .TP 186 .B M\-G 187 End 188 .TP 189 .B M\-h 190 Up 191 .TP 192 .B M\-j 193 Page down 194 .TP 195 .B M\-k 196 Page up 197 .TP 198 .B M\-l 199 Down 200 .SH SEE ALSO 201 .IR dwm (1), 202 .IR stest (1)