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dmenu

NAME

dmenu - dynamic menu

SYNOPSIS

dmenu [-i] [-b] [-fn <font>] [-nb <color>] [-nf <color>] [-p <prompt>] [-sb <color>] [-sf <color>] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

Overview

dmenu is a generic menu for X, originally designed for dwm(1). It manages huge amounts (up to 10.000 and more) of user defined menu items efficiently.

Options

-i

makes dmenu match menu entries case insensitively.

-b

defines that dmenu appears at the bottom.

-fn <font>

defines the font.

-nb <color>

defines the normal background color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).

-nf <color>

defines the normal foreground color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).

-p <prompt>

defines a prompt to be displayed before the input area.

-sb <color>

defines the selected background color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).

-sf <color>

defines the selected foreground color (#RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported).

-v

prints version information to standard output, then exits.

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. dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. The following keys are recognized:

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.

Left/Right (Mod1-h/Mod1-l)

Select the previous/next item.

PageUp/PageDown (Mod1-k/Mod1-j)

Select the first item of the previous/next 'page' of items.

Home/End (Mod1-g/Mod1-G)

Select the first/last item.

Tab (Control-i)

Copy the selected item to the input field.

Return (Control-j)

Confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to standard output). Returns 0 on termination.

Shift-Return (Control-Shift-j)

Confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to standard output). Returns 0 on termination.

Escape (Control-bracketleft)

Quit without selecting an item. Returns 1 on termination.

Backspace (Control-h)

Remove a character from the input field.

Control-u

Remove all characters from the input field.

Control-w

Remove all characters of current word from the input field.

SEE ALSO

dwm(1), wmii(1).