1 .TH DMENU 1 dmenu\-VERSION
29 is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline\-separated items from
30 stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed
31 to stdout and dmenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those
32 matching the tokens in the input.
37 which lists programs in the user's $PATH and runs the result in their $SHELL.
41 dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen.
44 dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin if not reading from a tty. This
45 is faster, but will lock up X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file.
48 dmenu matches menu items case insensitively.
51 dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines.
54 dmenu is displayed on the monitor number supplied. Monitor numbers are starting
58 defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field.
61 defines the font or font set used.
64 defines the normal background color.
67 and X color names are supported.
70 defines the normal foreground color.
73 defines the selected background color.
76 defines the selected foreground color.
79 prints version information to stdout, then exits.
84 dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Items are selected using the
85 arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end.
88 Copy the selected item to the input field.
91 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning
95 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues.
98 Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success.
101 Exit without selecting an item, returning failure.
104 Move cursor to the start of the current word
107 Move cursor to the end of the current word
164 Paste from primary X selection
167 Paste from X clipboard
170 Move cursor to the start of the current word
173 Move cursor to the end of the current word
