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1.5 KiB
64 lines
1.5 KiB
.TH DMENU 1 dmenu-VERSION
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.SH NAME
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dmenu \- dynamic menu
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B dmenu
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.RB [ \-v ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.SS Overview
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.B dmenu
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is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window System,
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originally designed for
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.BR dwm (1).
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It supports arbitrary, user defined menu contents.
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.SS Options
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.TP
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.B \-v
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prints version information to stdout, then exits.
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.SH USAGE
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.B dmenu
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reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin and creates a menu.
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When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Return, his choice
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is printed to stdout and
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.B dmenu
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terminates.
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.B dmenu
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is completely controlled by the keyboard. The following keys are recognized:
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.TP
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Any printable character
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Appends the character to the text in the input field. This works as a filter:
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only items containing this text will be displayed.
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.TP
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Left/Right
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Select the previous/next item.
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.TP
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Tab
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Copy the selected item to the input field.
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.TP
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Return
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Confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to stdout).
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.TP
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Shift-Return
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Confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to stdout).
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.TP
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Escape (Control-[)
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Quit without selecting an item.
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.TP
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Backspace (Control-h)
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Remove enough characters from the input field to change its filtering effect.
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.TP
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Control-u
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Remove all characters from the input field.
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.P
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.B dmenu
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returns
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.B 0
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if Return is pressed on termination,
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.B 1
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if Escape is pressed.
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.SH CUSTOMIZATION
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.B dmenu
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is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source
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code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR dwm (1)
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