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@@ -25,13 +25,10 @@ dmenu \- dynamic menu .BR dmenu_run " ..." .SH DESCRIPTION .B dmenu -is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for -.IR dwm (1). -It manages huge numbers of user\-defined menu items efficiently. -.P -dmenu 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 Return, their -choice is printed to stdout and dmenu terminates. +is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline\-separated items from +stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed +to stdout and dmenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those +matching the tokens in the input. .P .B dmenu_run is a dmenu script used by dwm which lists programs in the user's $PATH and @@ -42,8 +39,8 @@ executes the selected item. dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen. .TP .B \-f -dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin. This is faster, but may lock up -X if stdin is from a terminal. +dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin. This is faster, but will lock up +X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file. .TP .B \-i dmenu matches menu items case insensitively. |