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| author | Connor Lane Smith <cls@lubutu.com> | 2010-06-20 15:04:15 +0100 | 
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| committer | Connor Lane Smith <cls@lubutu.com> | 2010-06-20 15:04:15 +0100 | 
| commit | 9a33a72c6afd9042c8395f4318bf5d21e235694d (patch) | |
| tree | 4542dfa5c7bff1c81d728afa334eef0a78e2fca7 /dmenu.1 | |
| parent | 97797d90a6396c2fc0109a7bd47bb260d1143c8a (diff) | |
updated manpage, changed keybinds
M- binds tend to be wm level, and there were up to 3 binds for the same action
M-{hjkl} also no longer made sense in vlist mode
Diffstat (limited to 'dmenu.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | dmenu.1 | 46 | 
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 26 deletions
| @@ -14,12 +14,22 @@ dmenu \- dynamic menu  .RB [ \-sb " <color>]"  .RB [ \-sf " <color>]"  .RB [ \-v ] + +.B dmenu_run +[<options...>] + +.BR dmenu_path  .SH DESCRIPTION  .SS Overview  dmenu is a generic menu for X, originally designed for  .BR dwm (1).  It manages huge amounts (up to 10.000 and more) of user defined menu items  efficiently. + +dmenu_run is a dmenu script used by dwm which lists executables in the user's PATH +and executes the selected item. + +dmenu_path is a script used by dmenu_run to find and cache a list of executables.  .SS Options  .TP  .B \-i @@ -33,7 +43,7 @@ reparents dmenu to the window specified by xid.  .TP  .B \-l <lines>  activates vertical list mode. -The given number of lines will be displayed. Window height will get adjusted. +The given number of lines will be displayed. Window height will be adjusted.  .TP  .B \-fn <font>  defines the font. @@ -60,20 +70,9 @@ 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.  .P -dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. The following keys are recognized: -.TP -.B 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. -.TP -.B Left/Right (Up/Down) (Mod1\-h/Mod1\-l) -Select the previous/next item. -.TP -.B PageUp/PageDown (Mod1\-k/Mod1\-j) -Select the first item of the previous/next 'page' of items. -.TP -.B Home/End (Mod1\-g/Mod1\-G) -Select the first/last item. +dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Besides standard Unix line editing, +and item selection (Up/Down or Left/Right, PageUp/PageDown, Home/End), the following +keys are recognized:  .TP  .B Tab (Control\-i)  Copy the selected item to the input field. @@ -84,24 +83,19 @@ Confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to standard output). Returns  on termination.  .TP  .B Shift\-Return (Control\-Shift\-j) -Confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to standard output). +Confirm input and quit (print the text in the input field to standard output).  Returns  .B 0  on termination.  .TP -.B Escape (Control\-bracketleft) +.B Escape (Control\-c)  Quit without selecting an item. Returns  .B 1  on termination.  .TP -.B Backspace (Control\-h) -Remove a character from the input field. -.TP -.B Control\-u -Remove all characters from the input field. -.TP -.B Control\-w -Remove all characters of current word from the input field. +.B Control\-y +Pastes the X selection into the input field. This requires +.BR sselp (1).  .SH SEE ALSO  .BR dwm (1), -.BR wmii (1) . +.BR wmii (1). | 
