X-Git-Url: https://git.danieliu.xyz/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=dmenu.1;h=c994ad7210b40fcde68a82d7f8ccf404c1280471;hb=9a33a72c6afd9042c8395f4318bf5d21e235694d;hp=a0728839023a1f92040bbc0aa3f54f6d75eac847;hpb=1f6af5e78f74c80fcb9853dcc2fc7940538808b0;p=dmenu.git diff --git a/dmenu.1 b/dmenu.1 index a072883..c994ad7 100644 --- a/dmenu.1 +++ b/dmenu.1 @@ -5,19 +5,31 @@ dmenu \- dynamic menu .B dmenu .RB [ \-i ] .RB [ \-b ] -.RB [ \-fn " "] -.RB [ \-nb " "] -.RB [ \-nf " "] -.RB [ \-p " "] -.RB [ \-sb " "] -.RB [ \-sf " "] +.RB [ \-e " ]" +.RB [ \-l " ]" +.RB [ \-fn " ]" +.RB [ \-nb " ]" +.RB [ \-nf " ]" +.RB [ \-p " ]" +.RB [ \-sb " ]" +.RB [ \-sf " ]" .RB [ \-v ] + +.B dmenu_run +[] + +.BR dmenu_path .SH DESCRIPTION .SS Overview dmenu is a generic menu for X, originally designed for .BR dwm (1). It manages huge amounts (up to 10.000 and more) of user defined menu items efficiently. + +dmenu_run is a dmenu script used by dwm which lists executables in the user's PATH +and executes the selected item. + +dmenu_path is a script used by dmenu_run to find and cache a list of executables. .SS Options .TP .B \-i @@ -26,6 +38,13 @@ makes dmenu match menu entries case insensitively. .B \-b defines that dmenu appears at the bottom. .TP +.B \-e +reparents dmenu to the window specified by xid. +.TP +.B \-l +activates vertical list mode. +The given number of lines will be displayed. Window height will be adjusted. +.TP .B \-fn defines the font. .TP @@ -51,20 +70,9 @@ dmenu reads a list of newline-separated items from standard input and creates a menu. When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Return, his/her choice is printed to standard output and dmenu terminates. .P -dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. The following keys are recognized: -.TP -.B Any printable character -Appends the character to the text in the input field. This works as a filter: -only items containing this text will be displayed. -.TP -.B Left/Right (Mod1\-h/Mod1\-l) -Select the previous/next item. -.TP -.B PageUp/PageDown (Mod1\-k/Mod1\-j) -Select the first item of the previous/next 'page' of items. -.TP -.B Home/End (Mod1\-g/Mod1\-G) -Select the first/last item. +dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Besides standard Unix line editing, +and item selection (Up/Down or Left/Right, PageUp/PageDown, Home/End), the following +keys are recognized: .TP .B Tab (Control\-i) Copy the selected item to the input field. @@ -75,24 +83,19 @@ Confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to standard output). Returns on termination. .TP .B Shift\-Return (Control\-Shift\-j) -Confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to standard output). +Confirm input and quit (print the text in the input field to standard output). Returns .B 0 on termination. .TP -.B Escape (Control\-bracketleft) +.B Escape (Control\-c) Quit without selecting an item. Returns .B 1 on termination. .TP -.B Backspace (Control\-h) -Remove a character from the input field. -.TP -.B Control\-u -Remove all characters from the input field. -.TP -.B Control\-w -Remove all characters of current word from the input field. +.B Control\-y +Pastes the X selection into the input field. This requires +.BR sselp (1). .SH SEE ALSO .BR dwm (1), -.BR wmii (1) . +.BR wmii (1).