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.TH DMENU 1 dmenu-VERSION
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.SH NAME
dmenu \- dynamic menu
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dmenu
.RB [ \-v ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.SS Overview
.B dmenu
is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window System,
originally designed for
.BR dwm (1).
It supports arbitrary, user defined menu contents.
.SS Options
.TP
.B \-v
prints version information to stdout, then exits.
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.SH USAGE
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.B dmenu
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 Return, his choice
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is printed to stdout and
.B dmenu
terminates.
.B dmenu
is completely controlled by the keyboard. The following keys are recognized:
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.TP
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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
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Left/Right (Control-p/Control-n)
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Select the previous/next item.
.TP
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Tab (Control-i)
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Copy the selected item to the input field.
.TP
Return (Control-j)
Confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to stdout).
.TP
Shift-Return (Shift-Control-j)
Confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to stdout).
.TP
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Escape (Control-[)
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Quit without selecting an item.
.TP
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Backspace (Control-h)
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Remove enough characters from the input field to change its filtering effect.
.TP
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Control-u
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Remove all characters from the input field.
.P
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.B dmenu
returns
.B 0
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if Return is pressed on termination,
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.B 1
if Escape is pressed.
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.SH CUSTOMIZATION
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.B dmenu
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is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source
code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
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.SH SEE ALSO
.BR dwm (1)