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68 lines
1.6 KiB
.TH DMENU 1 d-0.0 |
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.SH NAME |
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dmenu \- dynamic menu |
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.SH SYNOPSIS |
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.B dmenu |
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.RB [ \-v ] |
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.RB [ \-t |
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.IR title ] |
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.SH DESCRIPTION |
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.SS Overview |
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.B dmenu |
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is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window System, |
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originally designed for |
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.BR dwm (1). |
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It supports arbitrary, user defined menu contents. |
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.SS Options |
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.TP |
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.B \-v |
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prints version information to stdout, then exits. |
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.TP |
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.BI \-t " title" |
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displays |
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.I title |
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above the menu. |
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.SS Usage |
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.B dmenu |
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reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin and creates a menu. |
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When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Enter, his choice |
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is printed to stdout and |
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.B dmenu |
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terminates. |
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.SS Keyboard Control |
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.B dmenu |
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is completely controlled by the keyboard. The following keys are recognized: |
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.TP 2 |
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Any printable character |
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appends the character to the text in the input field. This works as a filter: |
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only items containing this text will be displayed. |
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.TP 2 |
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Left/Right (Control-p/Control-n) |
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select the previous/next item. |
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.TP 2 |
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Tab (Control-i) |
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copy the selected item to the input field. |
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.TP 2 |
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Enter (Control-j) |
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confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to stdout). |
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.TP 2 |
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Shift-Enter (Shift-Control-j) |
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confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to stdout). |
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.TP 2 |
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Escape (Control-[) |
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quit without selecting an item. |
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.TP 2 |
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Backspace (Control-h) |
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remove enough characters from the input field to change its filtering effect. |
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.TP 2 |
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Control-u |
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remove all characters from the input field. |
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.SS Exit codes |
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.B dmenu |
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returns |
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.B 0 |
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if Enter is pressed on termination, |
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.B 1 |
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if Escape is pressed. |
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.SH SEE ALSO |
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.BR dwm (1)
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