1 .TH DMENU 1 dmenu\-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 dmenu \- dynamic menu 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B dmenu 6 .RB [ \-bfiv ] 7 .RB [ \-l 8 .IR lines ] 9 .RB [ \-h 10 .IR height ] 11 .RB [ \-m 12 .IR monitor ] 13 .RB [ \-x 14 .IR xoffset ] 15 .RB [ \-y 16 .IR yoffset ] 17 .RB [ \-z 18 .IR width ] 19 .RB [ \-p 20 .IR prompt ] 21 .RB [ \-fn 22 .IR font ] 23 .RB [ \-nb 24 .IR color ] 25 .RB [ \-nf 26 .IR color ] 27 .RB [ \-sb 28 .IR color ] 29 .RB [ \-sf 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 \-S 62 dmenu does not sort menu items after matching. 63 .TP 64 .BI \-l " lines" 65 dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines. 66 .TP 67 .BI \-h " height" 68 dmenu uses a menu line of at least 'height' pixels tall, but no less than 8. 69 .TP 70 .BI \-m " monitor" 71 dmenu is displayed on the monitor number supplied. Monitor numbers are starting 72 from 0. 73 .TP 74 .BI \-x " xoffset" 75 dmenu is placed at this offset measured from the left side of the monitor. 76 Can be negative. 77 If option 78 .B \-m 79 is present, the measurement will use the given monitor. 80 .TP 81 .BI \-y " yoffset" 82 dmenu is placed at this offset measured from the top of the monitor. If the 83 .B \-b 84 option is used, the offset is measured from the bottom. Can be negative. 85 If option 86 .B \-m 87 is present, the measurement will use the given monitor. 88 .TP 89 .BI \-z " width" 90 sets the width of the dmenu window. 91 .TP 92 .BI \-p " prompt" 93 defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field. 94 .TP 95 .BI \-fn " font" 96 defines the font or font set used. 97 .TP 98 .BI \-nb " color" 99 defines the normal background color. 100 .IR #RGB , 101 .IR #RRGGBB , 102 and X color names are supported. 103 .TP 104 .BI \-nf " color" 105 defines the normal foreground color. 106 .TP 107 .BI \-sb " color" 108 defines the selected background color. 109 .TP 110 .BI \-sf " color" 111 defines the selected foreground color. 112 .TP 113 .B \-v 114 prints version information to stdout, then exits. 115 .TP 116 .BI \-w " windowid" 117 embed into windowid. 118 .SH USAGE 119 dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Items are selected using the 120 arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end. 121 .TP 122 .B Tab 123 Copy the selected item to the input field. 124 .TP 125 .B Return 126 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning 127 success. 128 .TP 129 .B Ctrl-Return 130 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues. 131 .TP 132 .B Shift\-Return 133 Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success. 134 .TP 135 .B Escape 136 Exit without selecting an item, returning failure. 137 .TP 138 .B Ctrl-Left 139 Move cursor to the start of the current word 140 .TP 141 .B Ctrl-Right 142 Move cursor to the end of the current word 143 .TP 144 .B C\-a 145 Home 146 .TP 147 .B C\-b 148 Left 149 .TP 150 .B C\-c 151 Escape 152 .TP 153 .B C\-d 154 Delete 155 .TP 156 .B C\-e 157 End 158 .TP 159 .B C\-f 160 Right 161 .TP 162 .B C\-g 163 Escape 164 .TP 165 .B C\-h 166 Backspace 167 .TP 168 .B C\-i 169 Tab 170 .TP 171 .B C\-j 172 Return 173 .TP 174 .B C\-J 175 Shift-Return 176 .TP 177 .B C\-k 178 Delete line right 179 .TP 180 .B C\-m 181 Return 182 .TP 183 .B C\-M 184 Shift-Return 185 .TP 186 .B C\-n 187 Down 188 .TP 189 .B C\-p 190 Up 191 .TP 192 .B C\-u 193 Delete line left 194 .TP 195 .B C\-w 196 Delete word left 197 .TP 198 .B C\-y 199 Paste from primary X selection 200 .TP 201 .B C\-Y 202 Paste from X clipboard 203 .TP 204 .B M\-b 205 Move cursor to the start of the current word 206 .TP 207 .B M\-f 208 Move cursor to the end of the current word 209 .TP 210 .B M\-g 211 Home 212 .TP 213 .B M\-G 214 End 215 .TP 216 .B M\-h 217 Up 218 .TP 219 .B M\-j 220 Page down 221 .TP 222 .B M\-k 223 Page up 224 .TP 225 .B M\-l 226 Down 227 .SH SEE ALSO 228 .IR dwm (1), 229 .IR stest (1)
