bemenu(1)
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NAME
bemenu - Dynamic menu inspired by dmenu(1)
SYNOPSIS
bemenu [-hviw] [-l lines] [-p prompt] [-P prefix] [-I index] [--scrollbar when] [--ifne] [backend-options]
bemenu-run ...
DESCRIPTION
bemenu is a dynamic menu for tty(4) (using ncurses(3)), X11 and/or Wayland, inspired by dmenu(1). It reads a list of newline-separated items from standard input. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed to standard output and bemenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those matching the tokens in the input.
bemenu-run is a special-case invocation of bemenu, where the input is a list of executables in the $PATH directories, and the selection gets executed.
OPTIONS
- -h, --help
- Display bemenu help and exit.
- -v, --version
- Display bemenu version and exit.
- -i, --ignorecase
- Match items case-insensitively.
- -w, --wrap
- Wraps cursor selection.
- -l NUMBER, --list=NUMBER
- Lists items vertically with the given NUMBER of lines.
- -p PROMPT, --prompt=PROMPT
- Defines the PROMPT text to be displayed.
- -P PREFIX, --prefix=PREFIX
- Text to show before highlighted item.
- -I INDEX, --index=INDEX
- Select item at INDEX automatically.
- --scrollbar=WHEN
- Display a scrollbar. Valid values for WHEN are:
- always
- Always show the scrollbar.
- autohide
- Show scrollbar only when necessary.
- --ifne
- Only displays the menu when there are items.
Backend-specific Options
These options are only available on backends specified in the parentheses (Curses, Wayland and/or X11).
- -b, --bottom
- (Wayland, X11) The menu will appear at the bottom of the screen.
- -f, --grab
- (Wayland, X11) Show the menu before reading the standard input.
- -n, --no-overlap
- (Wayland) Adjust geometry to not overlap with panels.
- -m INDEX, --monitor=INDEX
- (X11) Specify INDEX of the monitor where the menu should appear.
- -H HEIGHT, --line-height=HEIGHT
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the HEIGHT to make each menu line. Use 0 for default height.
- --fn NAME [SIZE]
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the font to be used.
- --tb=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the title background COLOR.
- --tf=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the title foreground COLOR.
- --fb=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the filter background COLOR.
- --ff=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the filter foreground COLOR.
- --nb=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the normal background COLOR.
- --nf=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the normal foreground COLOR.
- --hb=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the highlighted background COLOR.
- --hf=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the highlighted foreground COLOR.
- --sb=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the selected background COLOR.
- --sf=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the selected foreground COLOR.
- --scb=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the scrollbar background COLOR.
- --scf=COLOR
- (Wayland, X11) Defines the scrollbar foreground COLOR.
EXIT STATUS
0 when the user selects an option, 1 when the user aborts the selection.
ENVIRONMENT
- BEMENU_BACKEND
The accepted values are:
- curses
- ncurses(3) based terminal backend.
- wayland
- Wayland backend.
- x11
- X11 backend.
| 2019-08-07 |