Command line options

dzen accepts numerous options:

• -fg foreground color
• -bg background color
• -fn font
• -ta alignment of title window content: l(eft), c(center), r(ight)
• -tw title window width
• -sa alignment of slave window, see "-ta"
• -l lines, see (1)
• -e events and actions, see (2)
• -m menu mode, see (3)
• -u update contents of title and slave window simultaneously, see (4)
• -p persist EOF (optional timeout in seconds)
• -x x position
• -y y position
• -h line height (default: fontheight + 2 pixels)
• -w width
• -xs number of Xinerama screen
• -v version information

Undocumented options currently include:

• -dock
• -title-name
• -slave-name
• -geometry
• -expand
• -fn-preload

See (5) for the in-text formatting language.