dmenu.1 (3704B)
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 [ \-nhb 24 .IR color ] 25 .RB [ \-nhf 26 .IR color ] 27 .RB [ \-shb 28 .IR color ] 29 .RB [ \-shf 30 .IR color ] 31 .RB [ \-w 32 .IR windowid ] 33 .P 34 .BR dmenu_run " ..." 35 .SH DESCRIPTION 36 .B dmenu 37 is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline\-separated items from 38 stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed 39 to stdout and dmenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those 40 matching the tokens in the input. 41 .P 42 .B dmenu_run 43 is a script used by 44 .IR dwm (1) 45 which lists programs in the user's $PATH and runs the result in their $SHELL. 46 .SH OPTIONS 47 .TP 48 .B \-b 49 dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen. 50 .TP 51 .B \-c 52 dmenu appears centered on the screen. 53 .TP 54 .B \-f 55 dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin if not reading from a tty. This 56 is faster, but will lock up X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file. 57 .TP 58 .B \-i 59 dmenu matches menu items case insensitively. 60 .TP 61 .B \-P 62 dmenu will not directly display the keyboard input, but instead replace it with dots. All data from stdin will be ignored. 63 .TP 64 .BI \-l " lines" 65 dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines. 66 .TP 67 .BI \-m " monitor" 68 dmenu is displayed on the monitor number supplied. Monitor numbers are starting 69 from 0. 70 .TP 71 .BI \-p " prompt" 72 defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field. 73 .TP 74 .BI \-fn " font" 75 defines the font or font set used. 76 .TP 77 .BI \-nb " color" 78 defines the normal background color. 79 .IR #RGB , 80 .IR #RRGGBB , 81 and X color names are supported. 82 .TP 83 .BI \-nf " color" 84 defines the normal foreground color. 85 .TP 86 .BI \-sb " color" 87 defines the selected background color. 88 .TP 89 .BI \-sf " color" 90 defines the selected foreground color. 91 .TP 92 .BI \-nhb " color" 93 defines the normal highlight background color. 94 .TP 95 .BI \-nhf " color" 96 defines the normal highlight foreground color. 97 .TP 98 .BI \-shb " color" 99 defines the selected highlight background color. 100 .TP 101 .BI \-shf " color" 102 defines the selected highlight foreground color. 103 .TP 104 .B \-v 105 prints version information to stdout, then exits. 106 .TP 107 .BI \-w " windowid" 108 embed into windowid. 109 .SH USAGE 110 dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Items are selected using the 111 arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end. 112 .TP 113 .B Tab 114 Copy the selected item to the input field. 115 .TP 116 .B Return 117 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning 118 success. 119 .TP 120 .B Ctrl-Return 121 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues. 122 .TP 123 .B Shift\-Return 124 Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success. 125 .TP 126 .B Escape 127 Exit without selecting an item, returning failure. 128 .TP 129 .B Ctrl-Left 130 Move cursor to the start of the current word 131 .TP 132 .B Ctrl-Right 133 Move cursor to the end of the current word 134 .TP 135 .B C\-a 136 Home 137 .TP 138 .B C\-b 139 Left 140 .TP 141 .B C\-c 142 Escape 143 .TP 144 .B C\-d 145 Delete 146 .TP 147 .B C\-e 148 End 149 .TP 150 .B C\-f 151 Right 152 .TP 153 .B C\-g 154 Escape 155 .TP 156 .B C\-h 157 Backspace 158 .TP 159 .B C\-i 160 Tab 161 .TP 162 .B C\-j 163 Return 164 .TP 165 .B C\-J 166 Shift-Return 167 .TP 168 .B C\-k 169 Delete line right 170 .TP 171 .B C\-m 172 Return 173 .TP 174 .B C\-M 175 Shift-Return 176 .TP 177 .B C\-n 178 Down 179 .TP 180 .B C\-p 181 Up 182 .TP 183 .B C\-u 184 Delete line left 185 .TP 186 .B C\-w 187 Delete word left 188 .TP 189 .B C\-y 190 Paste from primary X selection 191 .TP 192 .B C\-Y 193 Paste from X clipboard 194 .TP 195 .B M\-b 196 Move cursor to the start of the current word 197 .TP 198 .B M\-f 199 Move cursor to the end of the current word 200 .TP 201 .B M\-g 202 Home 203 .TP 204 .B M\-G 205 End 206 .TP 207 .B M\-h 208 Up 209 .TP 210 .B M\-j 211 Page down 212 .TP 213 .B M\-k 214 Page up 215 .TP 216 .B M\-l 217 Down 218 .SH SEE ALSO 219 .IR dwm (1), 220 .IR stest (1)