NAME

       dzen2 - general-purpose messaging and notification for X11

SYNOPSIS

       dzen2 [-v] [-p [seconds]] [-m [v|h]] [-ta <l|c|r>] [-sa <l|c|r>]
             [-x <pixel>] [-y <pixel>] [-w <pixel>] [-tw <pixel>] [-u]
             [-e <string>] [-l <lines>]  [-fn <font>] [-bg <color>]
             [-fg <color>] [-xs <screen>]

DESCRIPTION

       Dzen  is  a  general-purpose  messaging  and  notification program for X11, desigend to be
       scriptable in any language and integrate well with window  managers  like  dwm,  wmii  and
       xmonad though it will work with any windowmanger.

       Dzen  expects  the  status  message  on  its  standard input, and uses a custom formatting
       language for colors and several other features (like bar meters and such). See README  for
       detailed usage and scripting instructions.

OPTIONS

       -fg <color>
              Set  foreground  color.  The <color> can be specified either as symbolic name (e.g.
              red, darkgreen, etc.) or as #rrggbb hex-value (e.g. #ffffaa).

       -bg <color>
              Set background color (same format as -fg).

       -fn <font>
              Set font (using the format of xlsfonts and xfontsel).

       -ta <l|c|r>
              Set alignment of title window content: l(eft), c(center) or r(ight).

       -tw <pixels>
              Set title window width.

       -sa <l|c|r>
              Set alignment of slave window (see -ta ).

       -l <lines>
              Number of lines to display in slave window (see (1) in README).

       -e <event1=action1:option1:...,action2;event2=...>
              Set up events and actions, eg. responses to mouse clicks (see (2) in README).

       -m     Start up in menu mode (see (3) in README).

       -u     Update contents of title and slave window simultaneously, see (see (4) in README).

       -p [<timeout>]
              Persist EOF (optional timeout in seconds).

       -x <pixels>
              Set x position on the screen.

       -y <pixels>
              Set y position on the screen.

       -h <pixels>
              Set line height (defaults to fontheight + 2 pixels).

       -w <pixels>
              width

       -xs <n>
              Set the Xinerama screen number where dzen should appear.

       -v     Display version information.

AUTHOR

       Dzen2 has been written by Robert Manea.  This manpage has  been  written,  based  on  dzen
       documentation,  by  Petr  Ročkai,  for  Debian  GNU/Linux, but may be used by others. This
       manpage falls under the same licence as Dzen2 itself, see /usr/share/doc/dzen2/copyright.

SEE ALSO

       dzen2-dbar(1), dzen2-gcpubar(1), dzen2-gdbar(1), and  dzen2-textwidth(1).   More  detailed
       documentation   (especially   on  the  formatting  language  of  dzen2)  is  available  in
       /usr/share/doc/dzen2/README.gz.

                                                                                          DZEN(1)