9MENU
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 1 2004
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NAME
9menu - create a menu to run commands
SYNOPSIS
9menu
[
-bg background-color
] [
-display displayname
] [
-file name
] [
-fg foreground-color
] [
-font fname
] [
-geometry geom
] [
-iconic
] [
-label name
] [
-path
] [
-popdown
] [
-popup
] [
-shell prog
] [
-teleport
] [
-version
] [
-warp
]
menuitem[:command]
...
DESCRIPTION
9menu
is a simple program that accepts a list of menu item and command
pairs on the command line.
It creates a window that consists of nothing but a menu.
When a particular item is selected, the corresponding command is executed.
Either
Button1
or
Button3
may be used to select an item.
Alternatively, the UP-ARROW and DOWN-ARROW cursor keys may be used to
highlight different items, with ENTER used to select the
highlighted item.
Menu items and commands are separated by a colon. The colon and command
are optional. If they are missing, then the menu item is assumed to be
a command that can be executed directly.
A menu item consisting of the word
exit
causes
9menu
to exit when it is selected.
Otherwise, to stop
9menu ,
delete it using the window manager.
The
exit
menu item can be anywhere in the list, although by convention it is last.
If a command is supplied along with the
exit
item, that command is executed before
9menu
exits.
If a menu item's command starts with the word
exec,
9menu
ceases operating after launching it.
9menu
accepts the following command line options,
listed alphabetically:
-
- -bg background-color
-
Set the background color to
background-color.
By default, the background color is white.
- -display displayname
-
Use the X display
displayname,
instead of the default display.
- -file filename
-
Read items to display from
filename,
in addition to any other command line arguments. This is intended for use
with
#!
in scripts.
- -fg foreground-color
-
Set the foreground color to
foreground-color.
By default, the foreground color is black.
- -font fname
-
Use the font
fname,
instead of one of the default fonts built into
9wm.
- -geometry geom
-
Use
geom
(a geometry in standard X format) as the geometry of the menu.
This is most useful for specifying the initial location of the menu.
Note that
9menu
overrides the size part of the geometry specification. The window is
always just large enough to hold the menu.
- -iconic
-
Start up in the iconified state.
- -label name
-
Change both the window and icon labels of the window to
name.
The default label is the last component of the path used to run
9menu,
typically,
9menu.
- -path
-
Append the current directory to the command search path.
- -popdown
-
Once an item is selected, the menu window automatically iconifies itself.
- -popup
-
Act like a pop-up menu. Once a menu item is selected,
9menu
exits.
This option overrides
-popdown.
- -shell prog
-
Use
prog
as the shell to run commands, instead of
/bin/sh.
A popular alternative shell is
rc(1).
If the shell cannot be executed,
9menu
then
silently
falls back to using
/bin/sh.
- -teleport
-
Move the menu to where the mouse is when the menu is uniconified.
This option is particularly useful when combined with
-popdown.
- -version
-
This option prints the version of
9menu
on the standard output, and then exits with an exit value of zero.
- -warp
-
Warp the mouse to the menu when the menu is uniconified.
After the selection is made, restore the mouse to where it was.
This option is particularly useful when combined with
-popdown.
EXAMPLES
9menu -label Remotes xterm 'acme:rsh acme xterm' 'herman:rsh herman 9term' &
9menu -label 'X progs' ghostview xdvi xeyes xneko exit &
SEE ALSO
sam(1),
9term(1),
9wm(1),
rc(1),
es(1).
The Plan 9 Programmer's Manual.
VERSION
This man page documents
9menu
version 1.8.
Source code is available from
ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/Source/9menu.shar.gz
BUGS
This program has grown to have too many options.
AUTHORS
The initial idea for this program was by Arnold Robbins, after having
worked with John Mackin's GWM Blit emulation.
Matty Farrow wrote a version using libXg, from which some ideas were borrowed.
This code was written by David Hogan and Arnold Robbins.
Rich Salz motivated the
-shell
option.
Christopher Platt motivated the
-teleport
option.
John O'Donnell supplied the basic code for the
-fg
and
-bg
options.
Peter Seebach provided the base code for the
-file
and
-path
options.
Matthias Bauer made it work with the keyboard.
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
-
- EXAMPLES
-
- SEE ALSO
-
- VERSION
-
- BUGS
-
- AUTHORS
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