Output (monitor) to display on. If unset, the compositor will choose the monitor. Default: not set.

Comma separated list of fonts to use, in fontconfig format. That is, a font name followed by a list of colon-separated options. Most noteworthy is :size=n, which is used to set the font size. Note that the font size is also affected by the dpi-aware option.

Examples:

Default: monospace.

auto, yes, or no.

When set to yes, fonts are sized using the monitor's DPI, making a font of a given size have the same physical size, regardless of monitor.

In this mode, the monitor's scaling factor is ignored; doubling the scaling factor will not double the font size.

When set to no, the monitor's DPI is ignored. The font is instead sized using the monitor's scaling factor; doubling the scaling factor does double the font size.

Finally, if set to auto, fonts will be sized using the monitor's DPI if all monitors have a scaling factor of 1. If at least one monitor as a scaling factor larger than 1 (regardless of whether the fuzzel window is mapped on that monitor or not), fonts will be scaled using the scaling factor.

Note that this option typically does not work with bitmap fonts, which only contains a pre-defined set of sizes, and cannot be dynamically scaled. Whichever size (of the available ones) that best matches the DPI or scaling factor, will be used.

Also note that if the font size has been specified in pixels (:pixelsize=N, instead of :size=N), DPI scaling (dpi-aware=yes) will have no effect (the specified pixel size will be used as is). But, if the monitor's scaling factor is used to size the font (dpi-aware=no), the font's pixel size will be multiplied with the scaling factor.

Default: auto.

String to use as input prompt. Default: > .

Icon theme. Note that the name is case sensitive. Default: hicolor.

Boolean. When enabled, application icons (from the selected icon-theme) will be rendered. Default: yes.

Comma separated list of XDG Desktop entry fields to match against.

Even though fuzzel only displays the application names, matching can (and by default is) be done against other fields as well. Supported fields are:

Default: filename,name,generic.

Default character to use with the command line option --password. Note that this can be overridden on the command line, by explicitly specifying the character with --password=X. Default: *.

Boolean. Enables or disables fuzzy matching. Default: yes.

Boolean. Some desktop files define "actions", in addition to the application itself. Examples are "new window", "preferences", etc. When this option is enabled, those actions will be listed by fuzzel. Default: no.

terminal command to use when launching 'terminal' programs, e.g. "xterm -e". Default: $TERMINAL -e.

Prefix to add before argv of executed program. Default: not set.

Number of matches to show. Default: 15.

Window width, in characters. Border and margins are not included in this. Default: 30.

Horizontal padding, in pixels, between border and content. Default: 40.

Vertical padding, in pixels, between border and content. Default: 8.

Vertical padding between prompt and match list, in pixels. Default: 0.

The ratio of the large image displayed when there are only a "few" matches, compared to the full window size. Default: 0.5.

Override line height from font metrics. Default: use font metrics.

Additional letter spacing. Negative values are allowed. Default: 0.

Which layer to render the fuzzel window on. Valid values are top and overlay.

top renders above normal windows, but typically below fullscreen windows and lock screens.

overlay renders on top of both normal windows and fullscreen windows. Note that the order is undefined if several windows use the same layer. Since e.g. lock screens typically use overlay, that means fuzzel may or may not appear on top of a lock screen.

Default: top

Boolean. If true, exit when the fuzzel window loses keyboard focus.

Setting this to false can be useful on compositors where enabling "focus-follows-mouse" causes fuzzel to exit as soon as the mouse is moved over another window. Sway (<= 1.7) exhibits this behavior, for example.

Default: yes

Background color. Default: fdf6e3dd.

Text (foreground) color of unselected entries. Default: 657b83ff.

Text (foreground) color of the matched substring. Default: cb4b16ff.

Background color of the selected entry. Default: eee8d5dd.

Text (foreground) color of the selected entry. Default: 657b83ff.

Text (foreground) color of the matched substring of the selected entry. Default: cb4b16ff.

Border color. Default: 002b36ff.

Width of the border, in pixels. Default: 1.

Amount of corner "roundness". Default: 10.

One of text or index. Determines what fuzzel prints on stdout when an entry is selected: text prints the entry itself, index prints the index of the selected entry. Default: text.

Boolean. If enabled, fuzzel will not run at all (i.e. it will not open a window, and will not print anything on stdout) if there's nothing on stdin. Default: no.

Quite fuzzel without executing anythingDefault: Control+g Control+c Escape.

Execute the currently selected entry. Or, in dmenu mode, print the selected entry on stdout. Default: Return KP_Enter Control+y.

If there is a single match, execute it. If there are more than one match, select the next entry. Wraps around when the last entry has been reached. Default: Tab.

Moves the cursor one character to the left. Default: Left Control+b.

Moves the cursor one word to the left. Default: Control+Left Mod1+b.

Moves the cursor one character to the right. Default: Right Control+f.

Moves the cursor one word to the right. Default: Control+Right Mod1+f.

Moves the cursor to the beginning of the input. Default: Home Control+a.

Moves the cursor to the end of the input. Default: End Control+e.

Deletes the character before the cursor. Default: BackSpace.

Deletes the word before the cursor. Default: Mod1+BackSpace Control+BackSpace.

Deletes the character after the cursor. Default: Delete.

Deletes the word after the cursor. Default: Mod1+d Control+Delete.

Deletes everything after the cursor. Default: Control+k.

Select the previous entry. Does not wrap around when the first entry has been reached. Default: Up Control+p.

Select the previous entry. Wraps around when the first entry has been reached. Default: ISO_Left_Tab.

Switch to the previous page. Default: PageUp KP_PageUp.

Select the next entry. Does not wrap around when the last entry has been reached. Default: Down Control+n.

Select the previous entry. Wraps around when the first entry has been reached. Default: not bound.

Switch to the next page. Default: Page_Down KP_Page_Down.

Execute the currently selected entry, then exit with a non-zero exit code. custom-1 exits with exit code 10, custom-2 with 11, custom-3 with 12, and so on.

Default: