dmenu \- dynamic menu
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dmenu
+.RB [ \-b ]
+.RB [ \-f ]
.RB [ \-i ]
-.RB [ \-x " <x>"]
-.RB [ \-y " <y>"]
-.RB [ \-w " <width>"]
-.RB [ \-fn " <font>"]
-.RB [ \-nb " <color>"]
-.RB [ \-nf " <color>"]
-.RB [ \-p " <prompt>"]
-.RB [ \-sb " <color>"]
-.RB [ \-sf " <color>"]
+.RB [ \-l
+.IR lines ]
+.RB [ \-p
+.IR prompt ]
+.RB [ \-fn
+.IR font ]
+.RB [ \-nb
+.IR color ]
+.RB [ \-nf
+.IR color ]
+.RB [ \-sb
+.IR color ]
+.RB [ \-sf
+.IR color ]
.RB [ \-v ]
+.P
+.BR dmenu_run " ..."
.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.
-.SS Options
-.TP
-.B \-x
-defines the x coordinate dmenu appears at (0 by default).
+.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.
+.P
+.B dmenu_run
+is a dmenu script used by dwm which lists programs in the user's $PATH and
+executes the selected item.
+.SH OPTIONS
.TP
-.B \-y
-defines the y coordinate dmenu appears at (0 by default). If it is negative,
-dmenu will appear with the bottom at the given positive coordinate. It it is
--0, dmenu appears at the screen bottom.
+.B \-b
+dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen.
.TP
-.B \-w
-defines the width of the dmenu window (screen width by default).
+.B \-f
+dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin. This is faster, but may lock up
+X if stdin is from a terminal.
.TP
.B \-i
-makes dmenu match menu entries case insensitively.
+dmenu matches menu items case insensitively.
+.TP
+.BI \-l " lines"
+dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines.
.TP
-.B \-fn <font>
-defines the font.
+.BI \-p " prompt"
+defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field.
.TP
-.B \-nb <color>
-defines the normal background color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).
+.BI \-fn " font"
+defines the font or font set used.
.TP
-.B \-nf <color>
-defines the normal foreground color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).
+.BI \-nb " color"
+defines the normal background color.
+.IR #RGB ,
+.IR #RRGGBB ,
+and X color names are supported.
.TP
-.B \-p <prompt>
-defines a prompt to be displayed before the input area.
+.BI \-nf " color"
+defines the normal foreground color.
.TP
-.B \-sb <color>
-defines the selected background color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).
+.BI \-sb " color"
+defines the selected background color.
.TP
-.B \-sf <color>
-defines the selected foreground color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).
+.BI \-sf " color"
+defines the selected foreground color.
.TP
.B \-v
-prints version information to standard output, then exits.
+prints version information to stdout, then exits.
.SH USAGE
-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:
+dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Besides standard Unix line
+editing and item selection (arrow keys, page up/down, home and end), 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.
-.TP
-.B Tab (Control\-i)
+.B Tab (Ctrl\-i)
Copy the selected item to the input field.
.TP
-.B Return (Control\-j)
-Confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to standard output). Returns
-.B 0
-on termination.
-.TP
-.B Shift\-Return (Control\-Shift\-j)
-Confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to standard output).
-Returns
-.B 0
-on termination.
-.TP
-.B Escape (Control\-bracketleft)
-Quit without selecting an item. Returns
-.B 1
-on termination.
+.B Return (Ctrl\-j)
+Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning
+success.
.TP
-.B Backspace (Control\-h)
-Remove a character from the input field.
+.B Shift\-Return (Ctrl\-Shift\-j)
+Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success.
.TP
-.B Control\-u
-Remove all characters from the input field.
+.B Escape (Ctrl\-c)
+Exit without selecting an item, returning failure.
.TP
-.B Control\-w
-Remove all characters of current word from the input field.
+.B Ctrl\-y
+Paste the current X selection into the input field.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR dwm (1),
-.BR wmii (1) .
+.IR dwm (1)
