-.TH DMENU 1 dmenu-VERSION
+.TH DMENU 1 dmenu\-VERSION
.SH NAME
dmenu \- dynamic menu
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dmenu
+.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 [ \-v ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.SS Overview
-.B dmenu
-is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for X,
-originally designed for
+dmenu is a generic menu for X, originally designed for
.BR dwm (1).
-It supports arbitrary, user defined menu contents.
+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).
+.TP
+.B \-y
+defines the y coordinate dmenu appears at (0 by default).
+.TP
+.B \-w
+defines the width of the dmenu window (screen width by default).
+.TP
+.B \-i
+makes dmenu match menu entries case insensitively.
+.TP
+.B \-fn <font>
+defines the font.
+.TP
+.B \-nb <color>
+defines the normal background color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).
+.TP
+.B \-nf <color>
+defines the normal foreground color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).
+.TP
+.B \-p <prompt>
+defines a prompt to be displayed before the input area.
+.TP
+.B \-sb <color>
+defines the selected background color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).
+.TP
+.B \-sf <color>
+defines the selected foreground color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).
+.TP
.B \-v
-prints version information to stdout, then exits.
+prints version information to standard output, then exits.
.SH USAGE
-.B 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, his choice
-is printed to stdout and
-.B dmenu
-terminates.
-.B dmenu
-is completely controlled by the keyboard. The following keys are recognized:
+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
-Any printable character
-Appends the character to the text in the input field. This works as a filter:
+.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
-Left/Right
+.B Left/Right (Mod1\-h/Mod1\-l)
Select the previous/next item.
.TP
-Tab
+.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)
Copy the selected item to the input field.
.TP
-Return
-Confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to stdout).
+.B Return (Control\-j)
+Confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to standard output). Returns
+.B 0
+on termination.
.TP
-Shift-Return
-Confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to stdout).
+.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
-Escape
-Quit without selecting an item.
+.B Escape (Control\-bracketleft)
+Quit without selecting an item. Returns
+.B 1
+on termination.
.TP
-Backspace (Control-h)
-Remove enough characters from the input field to change its filtering effect.
+.B Backspace (Control\-h)
+Remove a character from the input field.
.TP
-Control-u
+.B Control\-u
Remove all characters from the input field.
-.P
-.B dmenu
-returns
-.B 0
-if Return is pressed on termination,
-.B 1
-if Escape is pressed.
-.SH CUSTOMIZATION
-.B dmenu
-is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source
-code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
+.TP
+.B Control\-w
+Remove all characters of current word from the input field.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR dwm (1)
+.BR dwm (1),
+.BR wmii (1) .
