dmenu for lunch applications in dwm
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  1. .TH DMENU 1 dmenu\-VERSION
  2. .SH NAME
  3. dmenu \- dynamic menu
  4. .SH SYNOPSIS
  5. .B dmenu
  6. .RB [ \-b ]
  7. .RB [ \-i ]
  8. .RB [ \-l
  9. .IR lines ]
  10. .RB [ \-p
  11. .IR prompt ]
  12. .RB [ \-fn
  13. .IR font ]
  14. .RB [ \-nb
  15. .IR color ]
  16. .RB [ \-nf
  17. .IR color ]
  18. .RB [ \-sb
  19. .IR color ]
  20. .RB [ \-sf
  21. .IR color ]
  22. .RB [ \-v ]
  23. .P
  24. .BR dmenu_run " ..."
  25. .P
  26. .B dmenu_path
  27. .SH DESCRIPTION
  28. .B dmenu
  29. is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for
  30. .BR dwm (1).
  31. It manages huge numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.
  32. .P
  33. dmenu reads a list of newline-separated items from standard input and creates a
  34. menu. When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Return,
  35. their choice is printed to standard output and dmenu terminates.
  36. .P
  37. .B dmenu_run
  38. is a dmenu script used by dwm which lists programs in the user's PATH and
  39. executes the selected item.
  40. .P
  41. .B dmenu_path
  42. is a program used by dmenu_run to find and cache a list of executables.
  43. .SH OPTIONS
  44. .TP
  45. .B \-b
  46. dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen.
  47. .TP
  48. .B \-i
  49. dmenu matches menu items case insensitively.
  50. .TP
  51. .BI \-l " lines"
  52. dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines.
  53. .TP
  54. .BI \-p " prompt"
  55. defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field.
  56. .TP
  57. .BI \-fn " font"
  58. defines the font or font set used.
  59. .TP
  60. .BI \-nb " color"
  61. defines the normal background color.
  62. .IR #RGB ,
  63. .IR #RRGGBB ,
  64. and color names are supported.
  65. .TP
  66. .BI \-nf " color"
  67. defines the normal foreground color.
  68. .TP
  69. .BI \-sb " color"
  70. defines the selected background color.
  71. .TP
  72. .BI \-sf " color"
  73. defines the selected foreground color.
  74. .TP
  75. .B \-v
  76. prints version information to standard output, then exits.
  77. .SH USAGE
  78. dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Besides standard Unix line
  79. editing and item selection (Up/Down/Left/Right, PageUp/PageDown, Home/End), the
  80. following keys are recognized:
  81. .TP
  82. .B Tab (Control\-i)
  83. Copy the selected item to the input field.
  84. .TP
  85. .B Return (Control\-j)
  86. Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to standard output and exits,
  87. returning success.
  88. .TP
  89. .B Shift\-Return (Control\-Shift\-j)
  90. Confirm input. Prints the input text to standard output and exits, returning
  91. success.
  92. .TP
  93. .B Escape (Control\-c)
  94. Exit without selecting an item, returning failure.
  95. .TP
  96. .B Shift\-Insert
  97. Paste the current X selection into the input field.
  98. .SH SEE ALSO
  99. .BR dwm (1)