commit 0582480801d5815ef39fd624cb4ba108d0d21b35
parent b26d3f54ee853f5983425a50c93054744fb27af4
Author: Connor Lane Smith <cls@lubutu.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:06:13 +0100
update manpage
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dmenu.1 b/dmenu.1
@@ -25,13 +25,10 @@ dmenu \- dynamic menu
.BR dmenu_run " ..."
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dmenu
-is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for
-.IR dwm (1).
-It manages huge numbers of user\-defined menu items efficiently.
-.P
-dmenu reads a list of newline\-separated items from stdin and creates a menu.
-When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Return, their
-choice is printed to stdout and dmenu terminates.
+is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline\-separated items from
+stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed
+to stdout and dmenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those
+matching the tokens in the input.
.P
.B dmenu_run
is a dmenu script used by dwm which lists programs in the user's $PATH and
@@ -42,8 +39,8 @@ executes the selected item.
dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen.
.TP
.B \-f
-dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin. This is faster, but may lock up
-X if stdin is from a terminal.
+dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin. This is faster, but will lock up
+X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file.
.TP
.B \-i
dmenu matches menu items case insensitively.
