prepare stuff for type-to-select

[xmenu] / xmenu.1

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-.TH PROG 1
+.TH XMENU 1

 .SH NAME
 xmenu \- menu utility for X
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B xmenu
 .SH NAME
 xmenu \- menu utility for X
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B xmenu

-.RB [ \-w ]
+.RB [ \-irw ]
+.RB [ -p
+.IR position ]
+.RI [ title ]

 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B xmenu
 is a menu for X,
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B xmenu
 is a menu for X,


@@ -13,53 +16,193 @@ and outputs the item selected to stdout.
 .PP
 The options are as follows:
 .TP
 .PP
 The options are as follows:
 .TP

+.B -i
+Disable icons.
+This makes xmenu loading faster when not using icons.
+.TP
+.BI -p " position"
+Set the position to spawn xmenu.
+Without this option, xmenu spawns next to the cursor.
+.I position
+is a string of the form
+.BR INTxINT[:MONITOR] ,
+where the first INT is the x position and the second INT is the y position.
+The monitor part between brackets is optional.
+.B MONITOR
+can be a number from 0 to the number of monitors minus 1;
+or it can be a string like
+.B current
+or
+.BR cursor .
+If present, the monitor specifies that the position is relative to the upper left corner
+of that monitor.
+If
+.B monitor
+is
+.B current
+or
+.BR cursor ,
+the monitor to be used is that where the cursor is in.
+For example,
+.B -p 0x0:cursor
+specifies that
+.B xmenu
+must spawn at the position 0x0 of the monitor where the cursor is in.
+And
+.B -p 100x500:0
+specifies that
+.B xmenu
+must spawn at the position 100x500 of the monitor 0.
+.TP
+.B -r
+If this option is set, the right mouse button is disabled;
+so pressing it will not trigger any menu item.
+.TP

 .B -w
 Asks the window manager to draw a border around the menus.
 .B -w
 Asks the window manager to draw a border around the menus.

-Without this options, the menus do not have border drawn by the window manager.
+This option may be buggy in some window managers,
+specially tiled ones that do not respect window hints.

 .PP
 Each item read from stdin has the following format:
 .IP
 .EX
 .PP
 Each item read from stdin has the following format:
 .IP
 .EX

-ITEM := TABS LABEL TABS COMMAND NEWLINE
+ITEM := [TABS] [[IMAGE TABS] LABEL [TABS OUTPUT]] NEWLINE

 .EE
 .PP
 .EE
 .PP

-That means, each item is composed by
-tabs, followed by a label, followed by more tabs, followed by a command,
-and ended by a newline.
+That means that each item is composed by
+tabs, followed by an optional image specification, followed by tabs
+followed by a label, followed by more tabs, followed by an output,
+and ended by a newline.  Brackets group optional elements.

 .IP
 The initial tabs indicate the menu hierarchy:
 items indented with a tab is shown in a submenu of the preceding item not indented.
 .IP
 The initial tabs indicate the menu hierarchy:
 items indented with a tab is shown in a submenu of the preceding item not indented.

+An item without initial tabs is a top-level item.
+.IP
+The image is a string of the form "IMG:/path/to/image.png".
+It specifies a image to be shown as icon at the left of the entry.

 .IP
 The label is the string that will be shown as a item in the menu.
 An item without label is considered a separator and is drawn as a thin line in the menu
 separating the item above from the item below.
 .IP
 .IP
 The label is the string that will be shown as a item in the menu.
 An item without label is considered a separator and is drawn as a thin line in the menu
 separating the item above from the item below.
 .IP

-The command is the string that will be output after selecting the item.
+The output is the string that will be output after selecting the item.
+If an item does not have an output, its label is used as its output.

 .IP
 The newline terminates the item specification.
 .IP
 The newline terminates the item specification.

+.PP
+If the argument
+.I title
+is given, the title of the menu window is set to it.
+.SH USAGE
+.B xmenu
+is controlled by the mouse,
+but can also be controlled by the keyboard.
+Items can be selected using the arrow keys,
+Tab (with and without Shift),
+Home, End,
+Enter and Esc, and 1-9 keys.
+.TP
+.BR Home
+Select the first item in the menu.
+.TP
+.BR End
+Select the last item in the menu.
+.TP
+.BR Down ", " Tab
+Cycle through the items in the regular direction.
+.TP
+.BR Up ", " Shift-Tab
+Cycle through the items in the reverse direction.
+.TP
+.BR Right ", " Enter
+Select the highlighted item.
+.TP
+.B Left
+Go to the menu above.
+.TP
+.B Esc
+Go to the menu above or exit xmenu.
+.PP
+Additional key bindings can be set at compile time by changing the
+.B config.h
+file.
+.SH RESOURCES
+.B
+xmenu
+understands the following X resources.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.font
+The font in which the labels should be drawn.
+Multiple fonts can be added as fallback fonts;
+they must be separated by a comma.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.background
+The background color of non-selected items in the menu.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.foreground
+The color of the label text of non-selected items in the menu.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.selbackground
+The background color of selected items in the menu.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.selforeground
+The color of the label text of selected items in the menu.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.border
+The color of the border around the menu.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.separator
+The color of the separator between items in the menu.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.gap
+The gap, in pixels, between the menus.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.width
+The minimum width, in pixels, of the items in the menu.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.height
+The size in pixels of the height of a single menu item.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.borderWidth
+The size in pixels of the border around the menu.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.separatorWidth
+The size in pixels of the item separator.
+.TP
+.B xmenu.alignment
+If set to
+.BR "\(dqleft\(dq" ,
+.BR "\(dqcenter\(dq" ,
+or
+.BR "\(dqright\(dq" ,
+text is aligned to the left, center, or right of the menu, respectively.
+By default, text is aligned to the left.
+

 .SH EXAMPLES
 .SH EXAMPLES

-The following is an script exemplifying the use
+The following script illustrates the use of

 .BR xmenu .
 .BR xmenu .

-The output is redirected to xargs to make a command to be run by the shell.
+The output is redirected to
+.IR sh (1),
+creating a command to be run by the shell.

 .IP
 .EX
 #!/bin/sh
 
 .IP
 .EX
 #!/bin/sh
 

-cat <<EOF | ./xmenu | xargs sh -c
+cat <<EOF | xmenu | sh &

 Applications
 Applications

-       Web Browser     firefox
-       Image editor    gimp
-Terminal (xterm)       xterm
-Terminal (urxvt)       urxvt
-Terminal (st)          st
+       IMG:./web.png   Web Browser     firefox
+       IMG:./gimp.png  Image editor    gimp
+Terminal (xterm)                               xterm
+Terminal (urxvt)                               urxvt
+Terminal (st)                                  st

 
 

-Shutdown                       poweroff
-Reboot                 reboot
+Shutdown                                               poweroff
+Reboot                                         reboot

 EOF
 .EE
 .PP
 For example, by selecting \(lqApplications\(rq, a new menu will appear.
 EOF
 .EE
 .PP
 For example, by selecting \(lqApplications\(rq, a new menu will appear.

-Selecting \(lqWeb Browser\(rq in the new menu will open firefox.
+Selecting \(lqWeb Browser\(rq in the new menu opens firefox.

 .SH SEE ALSO
 .IR dmenu (1),
 .IR 9menu (1),
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .IR dmenu (1),
 .IR 9menu (1),