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3Xmenu is a menu utility for X.
4Xmenu receives a menu specification in stdin, shows a menu for the user
5to select one of the options, and outputs the option selected to stdout.
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7§ Installation
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9In order to build xmenu you need the Xlib header files.
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11Edit config.mk to match your local setup (xmenu is installed into the
12/usr/local prefix by default). Then enter the following command to
13build and install xmenu (if necessary as root).
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15 make clean install
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18§ Running xmenu
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20xmenu receives as input a menu specification where each line is a menu
21entry. Each line can be indented with tabs to represent nested menus.
22Each line is made out of a label and a command separated by any number
23of tabs. Lines without labels are menu separators.
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25See the script ./xmenu.sh for an example of how xmenu can be used to
26draw a simple menu with submenus and separators.
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28Read the manual for more information on running xmenu.