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author | Dave Davenport <qball@gmpclient.org> | 2017-07-18 09:18:18 +0200 |
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committer | Dave Davenport <qball@gmpclient.org> | 2017-07-18 09:18:18 +0200 |
commit | 138ffc168d68f43c74db0e658cb30261a07d9a8b (patch) | |
tree | 7234b3aaa0020f092725575bc476690fdfbb1ab7 /doc/rofi.1.markdown | |
parent | fd146b05199b3de269f08030d1d2f5047fec00cb (diff) |
Small manpage updates
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diff --git a/doc/rofi.1.markdown b/doc/rofi.1.markdown index 3a7c30eb..5194cab4 100644 --- a/doc/rofi.1.markdown +++ b/doc/rofi.1.markdown @@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ To show the run dialog: The "official" website for `dmenu` can be found [here](http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/). +**rofi** does not aim to be 100% compatible with dmenu. There are simply to many different flavours of dmenu. +The idea is the basic usage commandline flags are obeyed, theme related flags are not. +Besides this, **rofi** offers some extended features (like multi-select, highlighting, message bar, extra key-bindings). + ## CONFIGURATION There are currently three methods of setting configuration options (evaluated in order below): @@ -88,13 +92,15 @@ There are currently three methods of setting configuration options (evaluated in * System configuration file (f.e. /etc/rofi.conf). * Xresources: A method of storing key values in the Xserver. See [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_resources) for more information. - This is the recommended way of configuring **rofi**. * Configuration File: This uses the same format as the Xresources file. - By default it looks in `XDG_USER_CONFIG_DIR`/rofi/config, but can be overriden on commandline. + By default it looks in `XDG_USER_CONFIG_DIR`/rofi/config, but can be overridden on commandline. By default XDG_USER_CONFIG_DIR defaults to `$HOME/.config`. (See `rofi -h` for current location). + This is the recommended way of configuring **rofi**. * Command-line options: Arguments passed to **rofi**. **TIP**: To get a template config file run: `rofi -dump-xresources > rofi-example.config`. +**NOTE**: In version 1.4.0 we support configuration in a new format, a config for this can be generated by: `rofi +-dump-config` The Xresources file expects options starting with `rofi.` followed by it's name. An Example to set the number of lines: |