1 .TH DMENU 1 dmenu-VERSION
9 dmenu is a generic menu for X, originally designed for
11 It manages huge amounts (up to 10.000 and more) of user defined menu items
16 prints version information to standard output, then exits.
18 dmenu reads a list of newline-separated items from standard input and creates a
19 menu. When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Return, his
20 choice is printed to standard output and dmenu terminates.
22 dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. The following keys are recognized:
24 .B Any printable character
25 Appends the character to the text in the input field. This works as a filter:
26 only items containing this text will be displayed.
29 Select the previous/next item.
32 Copy the selected item to the input field.
35 Confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to standard output).
38 Confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to standard output).
41 Quit without selecting an item.
43 .B Backspace (Control-h)
44 Remove enough characters from the input field to change its filtering effect.
47 Remove all characters from the input field.
57 is pressed on termination.
59 dmenu is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source
60 code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.