NAME

dmenu2 - dynamic menu 2

SYNOPSIS

dmenu2 [-b] [-f] [-r] [-i] [-z] [-t] [-mask] [-noinput] [-s screen] [-name name] [-class class] [-o opacity] [-dim opacity] [-dc color] [-l lines] [-h height] [-uh height] [-w width] [-p prompt] [-fn font] [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] color] [-hist <filename>] [-v]

dmenu2_run ...

DESCRIPTION

dmenu2 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 dmenu2 terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those matching the tokens in the input.

dmenu2_run is a script used by dwm(1) which lists programs in the user's $PATH and runs the result in their $SHELL.

OPTIONS

-b

dmenu2 appears at the bottom of the screen.

-q

dmenu2 will not show any items if the search string is empty.

-f

dmenu2 grabs the keyboard before reading stdin. This is faster, but will lock up X until stdin reaches end-of-file.

-r

activates filter mode. All matching items currently shown in the list will be selected, starting with the item that is highlighted and wrapping around to the beginning of the list.

-i

dmenu2 matches menu items case insensitively.

-z

dmenu2 uses fuzzy matching. It matches items that have all characters entered, in sequence they are entered, but there may be any number of characters between matched characters. For example it takes "txt" makes it to "*t*x*t" glob pattern and checks if it matches.

-t

dmenu2 uses space-separated tokens to match menu items. Using this overrides -z option.

-mask

dmenu2 masks input with asterisk characters (*).

-noinput

dmenu2 ignores input from stdin (equivalent to: echo | dmenu2).

-s screen

dmenu2 apears on the specified screen number. Number given corespondes to screen number in X configuration.

-name name

defines window name for dmenu2. Defaults to "dmenu2".

-class class

defines window class for dmenu2. Defaults to "Dmenu2".

-o opacity

defines window opacity for dmenu2. Defaults to 1.0.

-dim opacity

enables screen dimming when dmenu2 appers. Takes dim opacity as argument.

-dc color

defines color of screen dimming. Active only when -dim in effect. Defautls to black (#000000)

-l lines

dmenu2 lists items vertically, with the given number of lines.

-h height

defines the height of the bar in pixels.

-uh height

defines the height of the underline in pixels.

-p prompt

defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field.

-fn font

defines the font or font set used. eg. "fixed" or "Monospace-12:normal" (an xft font)

-x xoffset

defines the offset from the left border of the screen.

-y yoffset

defines the offset from the top border of the screen.

-w width

defines the desired menu window width.

-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.

-uc color

defines the underline color.

-hist <histfile>

the file to use for history

-v

prints version information to stdout, then exits.

USAGE

dmenu2 is completely controlled by the keyboard. 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.

Shift-Return

Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success.

Escape

Exit without selecting an item, returning failure.

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-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-g

Home

M-G

End

M-h

Up

M-j

Page down

M-k

Page up

M-l

Down

SEE ALSO

dwm(1), stest2(1)