NAME

dmenu - dynamic menu

SYNOPSIS

dmenu|dmenu_run [ -bfiv ] [ -l lines ]
                [ -m monitor ] [ -p prompt ]
                [ -L tl|tc|tr|ml|mc|mr|bl|bc|br]
                [ -fn font ] [ -nb color ] [ -nf color ]
                [ -sb color ] [ -sf color ] [ -nhb color ]
                [ -nhf color ] [ -shb color ] [ -shf color ]
                [ -w windowid ]

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 which lists programs in the user's $PATH and runs the result in their $SHELL.

My patches

dmenu-caseinsensitive-20200523-db6093f.diff
dmenu-fuzzyhighlight-4.9.diff
- But it doesn't draw correctly over the marked-up text, so it currently shows matched characters in the whole line of text, not just the pango output:

dmenu-mousesupport-4.9.diff
dmenu-xyw-4.7.diff
dmenu-pango-4.9-20200612.diff
- this is my own patch, it won't be on the suckless site

padding
- no diff for this, soz

dmenu-pango-imlib
- this one I'm still trying to sort out.

OPTIONS

-b
dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen. Doesn't exist any more because this is handled by -L

-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.

-s
dmenu matches menu items case sensitively.

-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.

-x <xoffset>
dmenu is placed at this offset measured from the left side of the monitor.
Can be negative.
If option -m is present, the measurement will use the given monitor.

-y <yoffset>
dmenu is placed at this offset measured from the top of the monitor. If the -b option is used, the offset is measured from the bottom.
Can be negative.
If option -m is present, the measurement will use the given monitor.

-w <width>
sets the width of the dmenu window.

-L tl|tc|tr|ml|mc|mr|bl|bc|br
Where to draw dmenu.

tl tc tr
ml mc mr
bl bc br

-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.

-nhb <color>
defines the normal highlight background color.

-nhf <color>
defines the normal highlight foreground color.

-shb <color>
defines the selected highlight background color.

-shf <color>
defines the selected highlight foreground color.

-v
prints version information to stdout, then exits.

-w <windowid>
embed into windowid.

USAGE

dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard, but this fork has the mousesupport patch, heheh. 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.

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.

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-c
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

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