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updated manpage, changed keybinds

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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
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Connor Lane Smith
2010-06-20 15:04:15 +01:00
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@ -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).