X-Git-Url: https://git.subgeniuskitty.com/xmenu/.git/blobdiff_plain/c49dad285c831949de928de318043032429664ac..738ed9d5f5731b45840de897afa70aa1bbf0b0af:/xmenu.1 diff --git a/xmenu.1 b/xmenu.1 index 7764afd..d114668 100644 --- a/xmenu.1 +++ b/xmenu.1 @@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ 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, @@ -94,13 +83,13 @@ 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 @@ -113,7 +102,7 @@ creating a command to be run by the shell. .EX #!/bin/sh -cat <