.TH PROG 1 .SH NAME xmenu \- menu utility for X .SH SYNOPSIS .B xmenu .RB [ \-w ] .RI [ title ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B xmenu is a menu for X, 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. This option may be buggy in some window managers, specially tiled ones. .PP Each item read from stdin has the following format: .IP .EX ITEM := [TABS] [[IMAGE TABS] LABEL [TABS OUTPUT]] NEWLINE .EE .PP 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. 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 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, but can also be controlled by the keyboard. Items can be selected using the arrow keys, Tab (with and without Shift), Enter and Esc. .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. .SH RESOURCES .B xmenu understands the following X resources. .TP .B xmenu.font The font in which the labels should be drawn. .TP .B xmenu.background The background color of non-selected itens in the menu. .TP .B xmenu.foreground The color of the label text of non-selected itens in the menu. .TP .B xmenu.selbackground The background color of selected itens in the menu. .TP .B xmenu.selforeground The color of the label text of selected itens 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 itens in the menu. .TP .B xmenu.width The minimum width, in pixels, of the items in the menu. .TP .B xmenu.padding The size in pixels of the padding around the label text in items in the menu. .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. .SH EXAMPLES The following script illustrates the use of .BR xmenu . The output is redirected to .IR sh (1), creating a command to be run by the shell. .IP .EX #!/bin/sh cat <