X-Git-Url: https://git.danieliu.xyz/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=dmenu.1;h=5f7446300d421f72c59b61110d1de854b42418e4;hb=8ac44eb75a3e2190aa7b89548956b2de33c5a6ce;hp=616a2a50c71001433b795e55dc5c9159fcf9a278;hpb=49672e9d05540fdde14af64723f2f861918031d4;p=dmenu.git diff --git a/dmenu.1 b/dmenu.1 index 616a2a5..5f74463 100644 --- a/dmenu.1 +++ b/dmenu.1 @@ -25,25 +25,23 @@ 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 -executes the selected item. +is a script used by +.IR dwm (1) +which lists programs in the user's $PATH and executes the selected item. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-b 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. @@ -93,7 +91,10 @@ Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success. Exit without selecting an item, returning failure. .TP .B Ctrl\-y -Paste the current X selection into the input field. +Paste the primary X selection into the input field. +.TP +.B Ctrl-Shift-y +Paste the X clipboard into the input field. .SH SEE ALSO .IR dwm (1), .IR lsx (1)