7 awesome-menu - awesome menu system
12 awesome-menu [-c config] [-e command] <title>
17 awesome-menu is a tool which will pop up a menu on your screen, grabbing
18 keyboard and allowing you to search through an initial completion list, or
19 using your files as completion.
23 By default, awesome-menu read completion from standard input. If nothing is
24 read, the completion list is built from the current working directory files.
26 To build a menu with executable program:
28 ls /usr/bin | awesome-menu -e 'exec ' 'Execute'
30 To build the same menu with executable run in a terminal window:
32 ls /usr/bin | awesome-menu -e 'xterm -e exec ' 'Execute in terminal'
34 To build an ssh connection prompt:
36 cut -d' ' -f1 ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -d, -f1 | awesome-menu -e 'xterm -e ssh ' 'ssh to:'
38 If you do not specify the -e option, result will be printed to standard output.
39 You can do things like that:
41 gzip "$(awesome-menu '"File to gzip')"
46 Use an alternate configuration file instead of $HOME/.awesomerc.
48 Command to execute. The result is appended to the end of this command (like xargs).
50 Print this title. This is also used to identify the menu section in the awesomerc file.
54 awesome(1) awesomerc(5)
58 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
62 http://awesome.naquadah.org