dmenu - dynamic menu

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS USAGE X Resources SEE ALSO

dmenu [−bfitv] [−l lines] [−m monitor] [−p prompt] [−fn font] [−nb color] [−nf color] [−sb color] [−sf color] [−H height] [−w windowid] [−idx index] [−wm]

dmenu_run ...

DESCRIPTION

dmenu 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.

dmenu_run is a script used by dwm(1) which lists programs in the user’s $PATH and runs the result in their $SHELL.

OPTIONS

	−b		dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen.
	−nc		dmenu appears not centered on the screen.
	−f		dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin if not reading from a tty. This is faster, but will lock up X until stdin reaches end−of−file.
	−i		dmenu matches menu items case insensitively.

−l lines

dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines.

−H height

dmenu uses a menu line of at least ’height’ pixels tall, but no less than 8

−m monitor

dmenu is displayed on the monitor number supplied. Monitor numbers are starting from 0.

−p prompt

defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field.

−fn font

defines the font or font set used.

−nb color

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

−nf color

defines the normal foreground color.

−sb color

defines the selected background color.

−sf color

defines the selected foreground color.

	−t		Return key prints input text instead of selection.
	−v		prints version information to stdout, then exits.

−w windowid

embed into windowid.

−idx index

specify the initial selection index number.

−wm

Display as a managed WM window (e.g. don’t set overide_redirect flag)

USAGE

dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Items are selected using the arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end.

	Tab		Copy the selected item to the input field.
	Return		Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning success. If −t option is given it confirms input instead of selection.

Ctrl-Return

Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues.

Shift−Return

Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success. If −t option is given it confirms selection instead of input.

Escape

Exit without selecting an item, returning failure.

Ctrl-Left

Move cursor to the start of the current word

Ctrl-Right

Move cursor to the end of the current word

	C−a		Home
	C−b		Left
	C−nc		Escape
	C−d		Delete
	C−e		End
	C−f		Right
	C−g		Escape
	C−h		Backspace
	C−i		Tab
	C−j		Return
	C−J		Shift-Return
	C−k		Delete line right
	C−m		Return
	C−M		Shift-Return
	C−n		Down
	C−p		Up
	C−u		Delete line left
	C−w		Delete word left
	C−y		Paste from primary X selection
	C−Y		Paste from X clipboard
	M−b		Move cursor to the start of the current word
	M−f		Move cursor to the end of the current word
	M−g		Home
	M−G		End
	M−h		Up
	M−j		Page down
	M−k		Page up
	M−l		Down

X Resources

dmenu.font

defines the font or font set used.

dmenu.background

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

dmenu.foreground

defines the normal foreground color.

dmenu.selbackground

defines the selected background color.

dmenu.selforeground

defines the selected foreground color.

dmenu.selhighlightbackground

defines the highlighted selected background color.

dmenu.selhighlightforeground

defines the highlighted selected foreground color.

dmenu.highlightbackground

defines the highlighted background color.

dmenu.highlightforeground

defines the highlighted foreground color.

dmenu.outbackground

defines the out background color.

dmenu.outforeground

defines the out foreground color.