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authorDave Davenport <qball@gmpclient.org>2017-07-18 09:18:18 +0200
committerDave Davenport <qball@gmpclient.org>2017-07-18 09:18:18 +0200
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@@ -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: