.TH GRIDMENU 1 grid-0.0

.SH NAME

gridmenu \- grid window manager menu

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B gridmenu

.RB [ \-v ]

.RB [ \-t

.IR title ]

.SH DESCRIPTION

.SS Overview

.B gridmenu

is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window System,

originally designed for

.BR grid (1).

It supports arbitrary, user defined menu contents.

.SS Options

.TP

.B \-v

prints version information to stdout, then exits.

.TP

.BI \-t " title"

displays

.I title

above the menu.

.SS Usage

.B gridmenu

reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin and creates a menu.

When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Enter, his choice

is printed to stdout and

.B gridmenu

terminates.

.SS Keyboard Control 

.B gridmenu

is completely controlled by the keyboard.  The following keys are recognized:

.TP 2

Any printable character

appends the character to the text in the input field. This works as a filter:

only items containing this text will be displayed.

.TP 2

Left/Right (Control-p/Control-n)

select the previous/next item.

.TP 2

Tab (Control-i)

copy the selected item to the input field.

.TP 2

Enter (Control-j)

confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to stdout).

.TP 2

Shift-Enter (Shift-Control-j)

confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to stdout).

.TP 2

Escape (Control-[)

quit without selecting an item.

.TP 2

Backspace (Control-h)

remove enough characters from the input field to change its filtering effect.

.TP 2

Control-u

remove all characters from the input field.

.SS Exit codes

.B gridmenu

returns

.B 0

if Enter is pressed on termination,

.B 1

if Escape is pressed.

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR gridwm (1)