1 .TH GRIDMENU 1 grid-0.0

2 .SH NAME

3 gridmenu \- grid window manager menu

4 .SH SYNOPSIS

5 .B gridmenu

6 .RB [ \-v ]

7 .RB [ \-t

8 .IR title ]

9 .SH DESCRIPTION

10 .SS Overview

11 .B gridmenu

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

13 originally designed for

14 .BR grid (1).

15 It supports arbitrary, user defined menu contents.

16 .SS Options

17 .TP

18 .B \-v

19 prints version information to stdout, then exits.

20 .TP

21 .BI \-t " title"

22 displays

23 .I title

24 above the menu.

25 .SS Usage

26 .B gridmenu

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

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

29 is printed to stdout and

30 .B gridmenu

31 terminates.

32 .SS Keyboard Control

33 .B gridmenu

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

35 .TP 2

36 Any printable character

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

38 only items containing this text will be displayed.

39 .TP 2

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

41 select the previous/next item.

42 .TP 2

43 Tab (Control-i)

44 copy the selected item to the input field.

45 .TP 2

46 Enter (Control-j)

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

48 .TP 2

49 Shift-Enter (Shift-Control-j)

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

51 .TP 2

52 Escape (Control-[)

53 quit without selecting an item.

54 .TP 2

55 Backspace (Control-h)

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

57 .TP 2

58 Control-u

59 remove all characters from the input field.

60 .SS Exit codes

61 .B gridmenu

62 returns

63 .B 0

64 if Enter is pressed on termination,

65 .B 1

66 if Escape is pressed.

67 .SH SEE ALSO

68 .BR gridwm (1)