1 .TH DMENU 1 dmenu\-VERSION
37 is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline\-separated items from
38 stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed
39 to stdout and dmenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those
40 matching the tokens in the input.
45 which lists programs in the user's $PATH and runs the result in their $SHELL.
49 dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen.
52 dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin if not reading from a tty. This
53 is faster, but will lock up X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file.
56 dmenu matches menu items case insensitively.
59 dmenu will not directly display the keyboard input, but instead replace it with dots. All data from stdin will be ignored.
62 dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines.
65 dmenu is displayed on the monitor number supplied. Monitor numbers are starting
69 defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field.
72 defines the font or font set used.
75 defines the normal background color.
78 and X color names are supported.
81 defines the normal foreground color.
84 defines the selected background color.
87 defines the selected foreground color.
90 defines the normal highlight background color.
93 defines the normal highlight foreground color.
96 defines the selected highlight background color.
99 defines the selected highlight foreground color.
102 prints version information to stdout, then exits.
107 dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Items are selected using the
108 arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end.
111 Copy the selected item to the input field.
114 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning
118 Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues.
121 Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success.
124 Exit without selecting an item, returning failure.
127 Move cursor to the start of the current word
130 Move cursor to the end of the current word
187 Paste from primary X selection
190 Paste from X clipboard
193 Move cursor to the start of the current word
196 Move cursor to the end of the current word