X-Git-Url: https://git.danieliu.xyz/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=dmenu.1;h=7243a36ee140e9a09254959fd95dabd4ab81856d;hb=4126b1e32379ee206c5c9bda2bf3699f171c9899;hp=44c953b402111e755a80a1b8d5737bc0f4b23a73;hpb=eadf090413c530e69e8568492ebeb4b4087bd2ad;p=dmenu.git diff --git a/dmenu.1 b/dmenu.1 index 44c953b..7243a36 100644 --- 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. @@ -95,4 +92,5 @@ Exit without selecting an item, returning failure. .B Ctrl\-y Paste the current X selection into the input field. .SH SEE ALSO -.IR dwm (1) +.IR dwm (1), +.IR lsx (1)