X-Git-Url: https://git.danieliu.xyz/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=dmenu.1;h=f0c45f49f87ce02508dad7d18981312271a42557;hb=08b264393d41321c1b7ae3644f73c67cb825c95c;hp=24ee38b6000345d9f9c8e9252e4c54d2d0fe87a2;hpb=569a1f925a7cf351e6ec3e38529f46a1d9becf3f;p=dmenu.git diff --git a/dmenu.1 b/dmenu.1 index 24ee38b..f0c45f4 100644 --- a/dmenu.1 +++ b/dmenu.1 @@ -5,20 +5,31 @@ dmenu \- dynamic menu .B dmenu .RB [ \-i ] .RB [ \-b ] -.RB [ \-l " "] -.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 +[] + +.B 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 @@ -27,9 +38,12 @@ 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 get adjusted. +The given number of lines will be displayed. Window height will be adjusted. .TP .B \-fn defines the font. @@ -56,20 +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 (Up/Down) (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. @@ -80,24 +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).