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 xmenu \- menu utility for X
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B xmenu
-.RB [ \-w ]
-.RI [ title... ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B xmenu
 is a menu for X,
@@ -12,37 +10,28 @@ it reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin,
 shows a menu for the user to select one of the items,
 and outputs the item selected to stdout.
 .PP
-The options are as follows:
-.TP
-.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.
-.PP
 Each item read from stdin has the following format:
 .IP
 .EX
-ITEM := TABS LABEL TABS COMMAND NEWLINE
+ITEM := [TABS] [LABEL [TABS OUTPUT]] NEWLINE
 .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 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.
+An item without initial tabs is a top-level item.
 .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.
-If the item spawns a submenu, the command is the title of the menu.
+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.
-.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,
@@ -94,24 +83,26 @@ The color of the separator between itens in the menu.
 .B xmenu.width
 The minimum width, in pixels, of the items in the menu.
 .TP
-.B xmenu.itemborder
-The size in pixels of the border around the label text in items in the menu.
+.B xmenu.padding
+The size in pixels of the padding around the label text in items in the menu.
 .TP
-.B xmenu.menuborder
+.B xmenu.borderWidth
 The size in pixels of the border around the menu.
 .TP
-.B xmenu.separatorsize
+.B xmenu.separatorWidth
 The size in pixels of the item separator.
 
 .SH EXAMPLES
-The following is an script exemplifying the use
+The following is an script exemplifying the use of
 .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
 
-cat <<EOF | xmenu | xargs sh -c
+cat <<EOF | xmenu | sh &
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