X-Git-Url: https://git.danieliu.xyz/?p=dmenu.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dmenu.1;h=7243a36ee140e9a09254959fd95dabd4ab81856d;hp=616a2a50c71001433b795e55dc5c9159fcf9a278;hb=0582480801d5815ef39fd624cb4ba108d0d21b35;hpb=b26d3f54ee853f5983425a50c93054744fb27af4 diff --git a/dmenu.1 b/dmenu.1 index 616a2a5..7243a36 100644 --- a/dmenu.1 +++ b/dmenu.1 @@ -25,13 +25,10 @@ dmenu \- dynamic menu .BR dmenu_run " ..." .SH DESCRIPTION .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. +is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline\-separated items from +stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed +to stdout and dmenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those +matching the tokens in the input. .P .B dmenu_run is a dmenu script used by dwm which lists programs in the user's $PATH and @@ -42,8 +39,8 @@ executes the selected item. dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen. .TP .B \-f -dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin. This is faster, but may lock up -X if stdin is from a terminal. +dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin. This is faster, but will lock up +X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file. .TP .B \-i dmenu matches menu items case insensitively.