J4-DMENU-DESKTOP(1)

NAME
j4-dmenu-desktop - faster replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop

DESCRIPTION
j4-dmenu-desktop is a faster replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop. It's purpose is to find .desktop files and offer you a menu to start an application using dmenu.

SYNOPSIS

    j4-dmenu-desktop [--dmenu="dmenu -i"] [--term="i3-sensible-terminal"]

OPTIONS

--dmenu=<command>
    Determines the command used to invoke dmenu Executed with your shell ($SHELL) or /bin/sh

--use-xdg-de
    Enables reading $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to determine the desktop environment

--display-binary
    Display binary name after each entry (off by default)

--no-generic
    Do not include the generic name of desktop entries

--term=<command>
    Sets the terminal emulator used to start terminal apps

--usage-log=<file>
    Must point to a read-writeable file (will create if not exists). In this mode entries are sorted by usage frequency.

--wait-on=<path>
    Must point to a path where a file can be created. In this mode no menu will be shown. Instead the program waits for <path> to be written to (use echo > path). Every time this happens a menu will be shown. Desktop files are parsed ahead of time. Perfoming 'echo -n q > path' will exit the program.

--no-exec
    Do not execute selected command, send to stdout instead

--help
    Display this help message

SEE ALSO
https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 enkore <public+j4-dmenu-desktop@enkore.de> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.