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.TH PROG 1
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.SH NAME
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xmenu \- menu utility for X
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B xmenu
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.RB [ \-w ]
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.RI [ title... ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B xmenu
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is a menu for X,
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it reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin,
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shows a menu for the user to select one of the items,
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and outputs the item selected to stdout.
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.PP
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The options are as follows:
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.TP
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.B -w
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Asks the window manager to draw a border around the menus.
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Without this options, the menus do not have border drawn by the window manager.
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.PP
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Each item read from stdin has the following format:
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.IP
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.EX
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ITEM := TABS LABEL TABS COMMAND NEWLINE
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.EE
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.PP
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That means, each item is composed by
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tabs, followed by a label, followed by more tabs, followed by a command,
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and ended by a newline.
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.IP
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The initial tabs indicate the menu hierarchy:
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items indented with a tab is shown in a submenu of the preceding item not indented.
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.IP
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The label is the string that will be shown as a item in the menu.
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An item without label is considered a separator and is drawn as a thin line in the menu
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separating the item above from the item below.
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.IP
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The command is the string that will be output after selecting the item.
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If the item spawns a submenu, the command is the title of the menu.
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.IP
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The newline terminates the item specification.
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.PP
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If the argument
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.I title
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is given, the title of the menu window is set to it.
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.SH USAGE
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.B xmenu
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is controlled by the mouse,
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but can also be controlled by the keyboard.
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Items can be selected using the arrow keys,
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Tab (with and without Shift),
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Enter and Esc.
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.TP
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.BR Down ", " Tab
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Cycle through the items in the regular direction.
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.TP
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.BR Up ", " Shift-Tab
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Cycle through the items in the reverse direction.
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.TP
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.BR Right ", " Enter
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Select the highlighted item.
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.TP
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.B Left
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Go to the menu above.
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.TP
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.B Esc
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Go to the menu above or exit xmenu.
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.SH RESOURCES
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.B
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xmenu
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understands the following X resources.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.font
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The font in which the labels should be drawn.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.background
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The background color of non-selected itens in the menu.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.foreground
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The color of the label text of non-selected itens in the menu.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.selbackground
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The background color of selected itens in the menu.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.selforeground
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The color of the label text of selected itens in the menu.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.border
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The color of the border around the menu.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.separator
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The color of the separator between itens in the menu.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.width
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The minimum width, in pixels, of the items in the menu.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.itemborder
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The size in pixels of the border around the label text in items in the menu.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.menuborder
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The size in pixels of the border around the menu.
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.TP
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.B xmenu.separatorsize
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The size in pixels of the item separator.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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The following is an script exemplifying the use
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.BR xmenu .
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The output is redirected to xargs to make a command to be run by the shell.
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.IP
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.EX
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#!/bin/sh
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cat <<EOF | xmenu | xargs sh -c
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Applications
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Web Browser firefox
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Image editor gimp
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Terminal (xterm) xterm
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Terminal (urxvt) urxvt
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Terminal (st) st
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Shutdown poweroff
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Reboot reboot
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EOF
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.EE
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.PP
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For example, by selecting \(lqApplications\(rq, a new menu will appear.
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Selecting \(lqWeb Browser\(rq in the new menu will open firefox.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.IR dmenu (1),
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.IR 9menu (1),
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.IR thingmenu (1)
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