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1 .TH GRIDMENU 1 grid-0.0 |
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2 .SH NAME |
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3 gridmenu \- grid window manager menu |
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4 .SH SYNOPSIS |
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5 .B gridmenu |
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6 .RB [ \-v ] |
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7 .RB [ \-t |
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8 .IR title ] |
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9 .SH DESCRIPTION |
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10 .SS Overview |
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11 .B gridmenu |
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12 is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window System, |
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13 originally designed for |
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14 .BR grid (1). |
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15 It supports arbitrary, user defined menu contents. |
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16 .SS Options |
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17 .TP |
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18 .B \-v |
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19 prints version information to stdout, then exits. |
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20 .TP |
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21 .BI \-t " title" |
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22 displays |
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23 .I title |
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24 above the menu. |
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25 .SS Usage |
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26 .B gridmenu |
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27 reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin and creates a menu. |
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28 When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Enter, his choice |
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29 is printed to stdout and |
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30 .B gridmenu |
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31 terminates. |
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32 .SS Keyboard Control |
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33 .B gridmenu |
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34 is completely controlled by the keyboard. The following keys are recognized: |
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35 .TP 2 |
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36 Any printable character |
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37 appends the character to the text in the input field. This works as a filter: |
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38 only items containing this text will be displayed. |
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39 .TP 2 |
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40 Left/Right (Control-p/Control-n) |
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41 select the previous/next item. |
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42 .TP 2 |
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43 Tab (Control-i) |
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44 copy the selected item to the input field. |
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45 .TP 2 |
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46 Enter (Control-j) |
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47 confirm selection and quit (print the selected item to stdout). |
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48 .TP 2 |
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49 Shift-Enter (Shift-Control-j) |
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50 confirm selection and quit (print the text in the input field to stdout). |
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51 .TP 2 |
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52 Escape (Control-[) |
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53 quit without selecting an item. |
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54 .TP 2 |
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55 Backspace (Control-h) |
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56 remove enough characters from the input field to change its filtering effect. |
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57 .TP 2 |
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58 Control-u |
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59 remove all characters from the input field. |
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60 .SS Exit codes |
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61 .B gridmenu |
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62 returns |
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63 .B 0 |
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64 if Enter is pressed on termination, |
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65 .B 1 |
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66 if Escape is pressed. |
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67 .SH ENVIRONMENT |
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68 .TP |
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69 GRID_FONT |
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70 The X11 font used to display each item in the menu. |
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71 .br |
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72 Default: fixed |
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73 .TP |
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74 GRID_NORMCOLORS |
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75 The foreground, background, and border colors of a label. Syntactically, three blank-separated color values of the form #RRGGBB are expected. |
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76 .br |
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77 Default: #222222 #eeeeee #666666 |
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78 .TP |
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79 GRID_SELCOLORS |
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80 Like GRID_NORMCOLORS, but for the selected label. |
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81 .br |
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82 Default: #ffffff #335577 #447799 |
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83 .SH SEE ALSO |
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84 .BR gridwm (1) |