Dmenu Specific Commandline Flags
A lot of these options can also be modified by the script using special input. See the rofi-script(5) manpage for more information about this syntax.
-sep separator
Separator for dmenu. Example: To show a list of 'a' to 'e' with '|' as a separator:
echo "a|b|c|d|e" | rofi -sep '|' -dmenu
-p prompt
Specify the prompt to show in dmenu mode. For example, select 'monkey', a,b,c,d, or e.
echo "a|b|c|d|e" | rofi -sep '|' -dmenu -p "monkey"
Default: dmenu
-l number of lines to show
Maximum number of lines the menu may show before scrolling.
rofi -dmenu -l 25
Default: 15
-i
Makes dmenu searches case-insensitive
-a X
Active row, mark X as active. Where X is a comma-separated list of python(1)-style indices and ranges, e.g. indices start at 0, -1 refers to the last row with -2 preceding it, ranges are left-open and right-close, and so on. You can specify:
- A single row: '5'
- A range of (last 3) rows: '-3:'
- 4 rows starting from row 7: '7:11' (or in legacy notation: '7-10')
- A set of rows: '2,0,-9'
- Or any combination: '5,-3:,7:11,2,0,-9'
-u X
Urgent row, mark X as urgent. See -a option for details.
-only-match
Only return a selected item, do not allow custom entry. This mode always returns an entry. It will not return if no matching entry is selected.
-no-custom
Only return a selected item, do not allow custom entry. This mode returns directly when no entries given.
-format format
Allows the output of dmenu to be customized (N is the total number of input entries):
- 's' selected string
- 'i' index (0 - (N-1))
- 'd' index (1 - N)
- 'q' quote string
- 'p' Selected string stripped from Pango markup (Needs to be a valid string)
- 'f' filter string (user input)
- 'F' quoted filter string (user input)
Default: 's'
-select string
Select first line that matches the given string
-mesg string
Add a message line below the filter entry box. Supports Pango markup. For more information on supported markup, see here ⟨https://docs.gtk.org/Pango/pango_markup.html⟩
-dump
Dump the filtered list to stdout and quit. This can be used to get the list as rofi would filter it. Use together with -filter command.
-input file
Reads from file instead of stdin.
-password
Hide the input text. This should not be considered secure!
-markup-rows
Tell rofi that DMenu input is Pango markup encoded, and should be rendered. See here ⟨https://developer.gnome.org/pygtk/stable/pango-markup-language.html⟩ for details about Pango markup.
-multi-select
Allow multiple lines to be selected. Adds a small selection indicator to the left of each entry.
-sync
Force rofi mode to first read all data from stdin before showing the selection window. This is original dmenu behavior.
Note: the default asynchronous mode will also be automatically disabled if used with conflicting options, such as -dump, -only-match or -auto-select.
-window-title title
Set name used for the window title. Will be shown as Rofi - title
-w windowid
Position rofi over the window with the given X11 window ID.
-keep-right
Set ellipsize mode to start. So, the end of the string is visible.
-display-columns
A comma seperated list of columns to show.
-display-column-separator
The column separator. This is a regex.
default: '\t'
-ballot-selected-str string
When multi-select is enabled, prefix this string when element is selected.
default: "☑ "
-ballot-unselected-str string
When multi-select is enabled, prefix this string when element is not selected.
default: "☐ "