fuzzel.ini(5)

NAME
fuzzel.ini - configuration file for fuzzel(1)

DESCRIPTION

fuzzel uses the standard unix configuration format, with section based key/value pairs. The default section is usually unnamed, i.e. not prefixed with a [section]. However it can also be explicitly named [main], say if it needs to be reopened after any of the other sections.

fuzzel will search for a configuration file in the following locations, in this order:

    •   XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fuzzel/fuzzel.ini (defaulting to ~/.config/fuzzel/fuzzel.ini if unset)
    •   XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/fuzzel/fuzzel.ini (defaulting to /etc/xdg/fuzzel/fuzzel.ini if unset)

An example configuration file containing all options with their default value commented out will usually be installed to /etc/xdg/fuzzel/fuzzel.ini.

SECTION: main

include
    Absolute path to configuration file to import.

    The import file has its own section scope. I.e. the including configuration is still in the default section after the include, regardless of which section the included file ends in.

        •   The path must be an absolute path, or start with ~/.
        •   Multiple include directives are allowed, but only one path per directive.
        •   Nested imports are allowed.

    Default: not set.

namespace
    Namespace for the spawned layer shell surface. Useful for blocking fuzzel out from screencasts in your compositor if it shows sensitive information, such as passwords.

    Default: launcher

output
    Output (monitor) to display on. You can list the available outputs with wlr-randr or with Sway using swaymsg -t get_outputs.

    Example: DP-1

    Default: Not set-- let the compositor choose output.

font
    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. See FONT CONFIG below for details.

    Examples:
        •   Dina:weight=bold:slant=italic
        •   Courier New:size=12
        •   Fantasque Sans Mono:fontfeatures=ss01

    Default: monospace.

use-bold
    Boolean. When set, fuzzel may use bold fonts. For example, for the currently selected item. Default: no

dpi-aware
    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.

gamma-correct-blending
    Boolean. When enabled, fuzzel will do gamma-correct blending in linear color space. This is how font glyphs are supposed to be rendered, but since nearly no applications or toolkits are doing it on Linux, the result may not look like you are used to.

    Compared to the default (disabled), bright glyphs on a dark background will appear thicker, and dark glyphs on a light background will appear thinner.

    FreeType can limit the effect of the latter, with a technique called stem darkening. It is only available for CFF fonts (OpenType, .otf) and disabled by default (in FreeType). You can enable it by setting the environment variable FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0" before starting fuzzel.

    Also be aware that many fonts have been developed on systems that do not do gamma-correct blending, and may therefore look thicker than intended when rendered with gamma-correct blending, since the font designer set the font weight based on incorrect rendering.

    In order to represent colors faithfully, higher precision image buffers are required. For this reason, fuzzel uses 16-bit image buffers (instead of 8-bit) when gamma-correct blending is enabled.

    It is not possible to enable gamma-correct blending in cairo enabled builds of fuzzel, since cairo does not support 16-bit image buffers.

placeholder
    Text to display as placeholder in the input box. Default: empty.

prompt
    String to use as input prompt. Note that trailing spaces are trimmed, unless the string is quoted. Default: "> ".

message
    Message to display above the prompt. Can contain some informational message, or can be used for having your prompt be above the input instead of in front. Supports newlines. For details on how long lines are treated, see message-mode.

message-mode
    One of wrap, and expand.

    wrap: any line that is longer than width is wrapped to the following line. Wraps on space boundaries if available, trimming leading spaces caused by truncation. If no space is available, the line is broken up after width characters.

    expand: If the longest line in message is longer than width, make the dialogue box wider to accommodate message.

icon-theme
    Icon theme. Note that the name is case sensitive. Default: default.

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

hide-before-typing
    Boolean. When enabled, application list will be hidden until the first letter is typed. When the prompt is cleared again, the list will appear. Default: no.

fields
    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:

    •   filename
    •   name
    •   generic
    •   exec
    •   categories
    •   keywords
    •   comment

    "filename" is the ".desktop" file name.

    Default: filename,name,generic.

password-character
    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: *.

match-mode
    One of exact, fzf and fuzzy.

    exact: what you type is matched exactly against each field in the fields list.

    fzf: fzf-style matching, where substrings from what you have typed are matched against each field in the fields list.

    fuzzy: levenshtein-based fuzzy matching of what you have typed against each field in the fields list.

    Default: fzf

sort-result
    Boolean. Whether to sort the result or not. Disabling sorting means no comparisons will be made between match results. I.e. launch count, match length, etc will be ignored. This effectively disables the cache (though, the cache is still updated on exit).

    Disabling this can improve search latency when searching very large data sets.

    Default: yes

match-counter
    Boolean. When enabled, the match count and total count is displayed on the right-hand side of the input prompt. Disabling the counter also improves performance when loading a very large number of dmenu entries from STDIN.

    Default: no.

filter-desktop
    Boolean. Filter desktop files based on the value of XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP. Default: no.

show-actions
    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
    terminal command to use when launching 'terminal' programs.

    The command may contain the placeholder {cmd} which will be replaced with the actual command to be run. When {cmd} is present, the command is only substituted in those locations and is not appended at the end.

    Examples:
    •   foot -a '{cmd}' -T '{cmd}' {cmd} sets app-id and title to the command name, then executes it
    •   xterm -e {cmd} executes the command in xterm
    •   xterm -e (no {cmd}) uses old behavior: appends command after terminal args

    Default: $TERMINAL -e.

list-executables-in-path
    Boolean. When enabled, the list will include executables from the PATH environment variable. Default: no.

launch-prefix
    Prefix to add before argv of executed program. If set, fuzzel will pass desktop file metadata through environment variables:

    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_ID (also exported as FUZZEL_DESKTOP_FILE_ID for backward compatibility)
    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_PATH
    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_NAME
    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_COMMENT
    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_NAME_L (Localized)
    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_COMMENT_L (Localized)
    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_ICON
And if launching an action:
    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_ACTION (Action identifier)
    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_ACTION_NAME
    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_ACTION_NAME_L (Localized)
    •   DESKTOP_ENTRY_ACTION_ICON

    Default: not set.

anchor
    Set window anchor, i.e. where on screen the window will be displayed. You can choose one from:

    •   top-left
    •   top
    •   top-right
    •   left
    •   center
    •   right
    •   bottom-left
    •   bottom
    •   bottom-right

    Default: center

x-margin
    Horizontal margin away from the anchor point in pixels. Default: 0.

    Note: this option has no effect when anchor=center, top or bottom.

y-margin
    Vertical margin away from the anchor point in pixels. Default: 0.

    Note: this option has no effect when anchor=center, left or right.

lines
    Number of matches to show. Default: 15.

hide-prompt
    Boolean. When set, hides the prompt line, making the window smaller. Input is still accepted though the prompt line is not displayed. Cannot be used with prompt-only. Default: no.

minimal-lines
    Boolean. Adjust the number of lines to display to the minimum of lines and the number of input lines. Only effective in dmenu mode. This allows fuzzel to size itself to the actual number of input lines rather than always showing the full lines rows. Default: no.

width
    Window width, in characters. Margins and borders not included. For variable width fonts this is an estimate, as the exact number of characters that will fit depends on which characters are being displayed. Default: 30.

tabs
    Number of spaces a tab is expanded to. Default: 8.

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

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

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

image-size-ratio
    The ratio of the large image displayed when there are only a "few" matches, compared to the full window size. Set to 0 or 1 to disable the large images. Default: 0.5.

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

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

layer
    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: overlay

keyboard-focus
    Keyboard focusing mode, valid modes are exclusive and on-demand.

    exclusive locks keyboard focus to fuzzel, receiving all keyboard input until closed.

    on-demand makes fuzzel focus like a regular window, allowing other windows to take keyboard focus by e.g. clicking on them. By default switching keyboard focus will immediately close fuzzel, using exit-on-keyboard-focus-loss=no allows interacting with other windows while fuzzel is open.

    Default: exclusive

exit-on-keyboard-focus-loss
    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

render-workers
    Number of threads to use for rendering. Set to 0 to disable multithreading. Default: the number of available logical CPUs (including SMT). Note that this is not always the best value. In some cases, the number of physical cores is better.

    In case you have a ridiculous amount of cores and/or threads, consider limiting the number of render-workers, since fuzzel cannot parallelize more than the number of displayed entries.

match-workers
    Number of threads to use for matching. Set to 0 to disable multithreading. Default: the number of available logical CPUs (including SMT). Note that this is not always the best value. In some cases, the number of physical cores is better.

    In case you have a ridiculous amount of cores and/or threads, consider limiting the number of match-workers, since fuzzel cannot parallelize more than the number of available entries.

delayed-filter-ms
    Time, in milliseconds, to delay refiltering when there are more matches than delayed-filter-limit. Default: 300.

delayed-filter-limit
    When there are more matches than this, switch from immediate refiltering to delayed refiltering (see delayed-filter-ms). Default: 20000.

scaling-filter
    Scaling filter to use when down scaling PNGs. One of none, nearest, bilinear, box, linear, cubic, lanczos2, lanczos3 and lanczos3-stretched.

    none, nearest and bilinear are the fastest options, but also have the worst looking results.

    cubic, lanczos2, lanczos3 and lanczos3-stretched are the slowest options, with the best looking results.

    box, and to some degree, linear, are in the middle, performance wise, while in most cases still being just as, or close to, as good as cubic and the lanczos filters.

    Default: box

cache
    Specify the default cache location. If unset, $XDG_CACHE_HOME/fuzzel will be used. Set to /dev/null to disable caching. Default: not set.

auto-select
    Boolean. When one entry is left, automatically select it. Default: no.

enable-mouse
    Boolean. Enable mouse input. Default: yes.

SECTION: colors

All color values are in RGBA.

background
    Background color. Default: fdf6e3ff.

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

message
    Text (foreground) color of the message string. Default: 657b83ff.

prompt
    Text (foreground) color of prompt character(s). Default: 586e75ff.

placeholder
    Text (foreground) color of the placeholder string. Default: 93a1a1ff.

input
    Text (foreground) color of input string. Default: 657b83ff.

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

selection
    Background color of the selected entry. Default: eee8d5ff.

selection-text
    Text (foreground) color of the selected entry. Default: 586e75ff.

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

counter=HEX
    The color of the match count stats printed at the right-hand side of the input prompt. See COLORS. Default: 93a1a1ff.

border
    Border color. Default: 002b36ff.

SECTION: border

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

radius
    Amount of corner "roundness". Default: 10.

selection-radius
    Amount of corner "roundness" for the selected entry. Default: 0.

SECTION: dmenu

mode
    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. Index values start at zero for the first entry. Default: text.

exit-immediately-if-empty
    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.

SECTION: key-bindings

This section lets you override the default key bindings.

The general format is action=combo1...comboN. That is, each action may have one or more key combinations, space separated. Each combination is in the form mod1+mod2+key. The names of the modifiers and the key must be valid XKB key names.

Note that if Shift is one of the modifiers, the key must not be in upper case. For example, Control+Shift+V will never trigger, but Control+Shift+v will.

Note that Alt is usually called Mod1.

xkbcli interactive-wayland can be useful for finding keysym names.

A key combination can only be mapped to one action. Lets say you want to bind Control+k to next. Since this is the default shortcut for delete-line-forward, you must unmap the default binding. This can be done by setting action=none; e.g. delete-line-forward=none.

cancel
    Quit fuzzel without executing anything. Default: Control+g Control+c Control+bracketleft Escape.

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

execute-or-next
    If there is a single match, execute it. Or, in dmenu mode, print the selected entry on stdout. If there are more than one match, select the next entry. Wraps around when the last entry has been reached. Default: Tab.

execute-input
    Execute the raw input as is, regardless of whether it matches anything in the list or not. In dmenu mode, prints the selected entry on stdout instead. Default: Shift+Return Shift+KP_Enter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

delete-line-backward
    Deletes everything before the cursor. Default: Control+u.

delete-line-forward
    Deletes everything after the cursor. Default: Control+k.

delete-line
    Deletes the entire input. Default: Control+Shift+BackSpace.

delete-prev
    Deletes the character before the cursor. Default: BackSpace Control+h.

delete-prev-word
    Deletes the word before the cursor. Default: Mod1+BackSpace Control+BackSpace Control+w.

delete-next
    Deletes the character after the cursor. Default: Delete.

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

insert-selected
    Copies the selected entry to the prompt, replacing the current prompt. In application mode, the Exec line is inserted, and in dmenu mode the entry itself is used. Default: Control+Tab.

expunge
    Removes the currently selected entry from the cache (of most commonly launched applications). Default: Shift+Delete.

clipboard-paste
    Pastes from the clipbard. Default: Control+v XF86Paste.

primary-paste
    Pastes from the primary selection. This action is also bound to the middle mouse button (this is currently not configurable). Default: Shift+Insert Shift+KP_Insert.

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

prev-with-wrap
    Select the previous entry. Wraps around when the first entry has been reached. Default: ISO_Left_Tap. (Shift+Tab)

prev-page
    Switch to the previous page. Default: PageUp KP_PageUp.

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

next-with-wrap
    Select the next entry. Wraps around when the last entry has been reached. Default: unbound.

next-page
    Switch to the next page. Default: Page_Down KP_Page_Down.

first
    Select the first entry, on the first page. Default: Control+Home.

last
    Select the last entry, on the last page. Default: Control+End.

custom-1, custom-2, ..., custom-19
    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:
        •   custom-1: Mod1+1
        •   custom-2: Mod1+2
        •   custom-3: Mod1+3
        •   custom-4: Mod1+4
        •   custom-5: Mod1+5
        •   custom-6: Mod1+6
        •   custom-7: Mod1+7
        •   custom-8: Mod1+8
        •   custom-9: Mod1+9
        •   custom-10: Mod1+10
        •   custom-11: Mod1+11
        •   custom-12: Mod1+12
        •   custom-13: Mod1+13
        •   custom-14: Mod1+14
        •   custom-15: Mod1+15
        •   custom-16: Mod1+16
        •   custom-17: Mod1+17
        •   custom-18: Mod1+18
        •   custom-19: Mod1+19

FONT CONFIG

Fontconfig uses a flexible string format for specifying fonts that allows you to define font families, styles, weights, and various properties. The basic syntax follows this pattern:

    "Family Name:style=Style:weight=Weight:size=Size"

Common Properties:

•   family - Font family name
•   style - italic, oblique, roman
•   weight - light, normal, bold, black (or numeric values 100-900)
•   size - Point size
•   slant - italic, oblique, roman
•   width - condensed, normal, expanded

Fontconfig supports fallback fonts. You can specify multiple font families separated by commas. The fallback fonts are searched in the order they appear. If a glyph cannot be found in any of the fallback fonts, the dynamic fallback list from fontconfig (for the primary font) is searched. Ex:

    "My Custom Font, DejaVu Sans:weight=bold, sans-serif"

Fontconfig always returns something unless you don't have any fonts installed, regardless of what font name you give it. You can check fonts that would be matched with `fc-match -s YourFontName`.

The font library Fuzzel uses, fcft, will search the explicit fallbacks whenever a glyph cannot be found in the primary font. When it cannot find a glyph in the explicit fallbacks, then it searches the fontconfig fallbacks of the first font in Fuzzel's list.

This design allows a custom fallback sequence as well as custom font options for each fallback.

SEE ALSO

•   fuzzel(1)
•   https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
•   https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel