diff --git a/config.mk b/config.mk
index 0df3fc8..b0bd246 100644
--- a/config.mk
+++ b/config.mk
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ FREETYPELIBS = -lfontconfig -lXft
 FREETYPEINC = /usr/include/freetype2
 # OpenBSD (uncomment)
 #FREETYPEINC = $(X11INC)/freetype2
+#MANPREFIX = ${PREFIX}/man
 
 # includes and libs
 INCS = -I$(X11INC) -I$(FREETYPEINC)
diff --git a/dmenu.c b/dmenu.c
index d95e6c6..571bc35 100644
--- a/dmenu.c
+++ b/dmenu.c
@@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ static Clr *scheme[SchemeLast];
 static int (*fstrncmp)(const char *, const char *, size_t) = strncmp;
 static char *(*fstrstr)(const char *, const char *) = strstr;
 
+static unsigned int
+textw_clamp(const char *str, unsigned int n)
+{
+	unsigned int w = drw_fontset_getwidth_clamp(drw, str, n) + lrpad;
+	return MIN(w, n);
+}
+
 static void
 appenditem(struct item *item, struct item **list, struct item **last)
 {
@@ -82,10 +89,10 @@ calcoffsets(void)
 		n = mw - (promptw + inputw + TEXTW("<") + TEXTW(">"));
 	/* calculate which items will begin the next page and previous page */
 	for (i = 0, next = curr; next; next = next->right)
-		if ((i += (lines > 0) ? bh : MIN(TEXTW(next->text), n)) > n)
+		if ((i += (lines > 0) ? bh : textw_clamp(next->text, n)) > n)
 			break;
 	for (i = 0, prev = curr; prev && prev->left; prev = prev->left)
-		if ((i += (lines > 0) ? bh : MIN(TEXTW(prev->left->text), n)) > n)
+		if ((i += (lines > 0) ? bh : textw_clamp(prev->left->text, n)) > n)
 			break;
 }
 
@@ -97,6 +104,9 @@ cleanup(void)
 	XUngrabKey(dpy, AnyKey, AnyModifier, root);
 	for (i = 0; i < SchemeLast; i++)
 		free(scheme[i]);
+	for (i = 0; items && items[i].text; ++i)
+		free(items[i].text);
+	free(items);
 	drw_free(drw);
 	XSync(dpy, False);
 	XCloseDisplay(dpy);
@@ -172,7 +182,7 @@ drawmenu(void)
 		}
 		x += w;
 		for (item = curr; item != next; item = item->right)
-			x = drawitem(item, x, 0, MIN(TEXTW(item->text), mw - x - TEXTW(">")));
+			x = drawitem(item, x, 0, textw_clamp(item->text, mw - x - TEXTW(">")));
 		if (next) {
 			w = TEXTW(">");
 			drw_setscheme(drw, scheme[SchemeNorm]);
@@ -232,7 +242,7 @@ match(void)
 	/* separate input text into tokens to be matched individually */
 	for (s = strtok(buf, " "); s; tokv[tokc - 1] = s, s = strtok(NULL, " "))
 		if (++tokc > tokn && !(tokv = realloc(tokv, ++tokn * sizeof *tokv)))
-			die("cannot realloc %u bytes:", tokn * sizeof *tokv);
+			die("cannot realloc %zu bytes:", tokn * sizeof *tokv);
 	len = tokc ? strlen(tokv[0]) : 0;
 
 	matches = lprefix = lsubstr = matchend = prefixend = substrend = NULL;
@@ -405,7 +415,7 @@ keypress(XKeyEvent *ev)
 	switch(ksym) {
 	default:
 insert:
-		if (!iscntrl(*buf))
+		if (!iscntrl((unsigned char)*buf))
 			insert(buf, len);
 		break;
 	case XK_Delete:
@@ -540,28 +550,21 @@ static void
 readstdin(void)
 {
 	char buf[sizeof text], *p;
-	size_t i, imax = 0, size = 0;
-	unsigned int tmpmax = 0;
+	size_t i, size = 0;
 
 	/* read each line from stdin and add it to the item list */
 	for (i = 0; fgets(buf, sizeof buf, stdin); i++) {
 		if (i + 1 >= size / sizeof *items)
 			if (!(items = realloc(items, (size += BUFSIZ))))
-				die("cannot realloc %u bytes:", size);
+				die("cannot realloc %zu bytes:", size);
 		if ((p = strchr(buf, '\n')))
 			*p = '\0';
 		if (!(items[i].text = strdup(buf)))
-			die("cannot strdup %u bytes:", strlen(buf) + 1);
+			die("cannot strdup %zu bytes:", strlen(buf) + 1);
 		items[i].out = 0;
-		drw_font_getexts(drw->fonts, buf, strlen(buf), &tmpmax, NULL);
-		if (tmpmax > inputw) {
-			inputw = tmpmax;
-			imax = i;
-		}
 	}
 	if (items)
 		items[i].text = NULL;
-	inputw = items ? TEXTW(items[imax].text) : 0;
 	lines = MIN(lines, i);
 }
 
@@ -652,7 +655,7 @@ setup(void)
 		/* no focused window is on screen, so use pointer location instead */
 		if (mon < 0 && !area && XQueryPointer(dpy, root, &dw, &dw, &x, &y, &di, &di, &du))
 			for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
-				if (INTERSECT(x, y, 1, 1, info[i]))
+				if (INTERSECT(x, y, 1, 1, info[i]) != 0)
 					break;
 
 		x = info[i].x_org;
@@ -670,7 +673,7 @@ setup(void)
 		mw = wa.width;
 	}
 	promptw = (prompt && *prompt) ? TEXTW(prompt) - lrpad / 4 : 0;
-	inputw = MIN(inputw, mw/3);
+	inputw = mw / 3; /* input width: ~33% of monitor width */
 	match();
 
 	/* create menu window */
diff --git a/drw.c b/drw.c
index 4cdbcbe..ced7d37 100644
--- a/drw.c
+++ b/drw.c
@@ -251,12 +251,10 @@ drw_rect(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, int filled, int
 int
 drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lpad, const char *text, int invert)
 {
-	char buf[1024];
-	int ty;
-	unsigned int ew;
+	int i, ty, ellipsis_x = 0;
+	unsigned int tmpw, ew, ellipsis_w = 0, ellipsis_len;
 	XftDraw *d = NULL;
 	Fnt *usedfont, *curfont, *nextfont;
-	size_t i, len;
 	int utf8strlen, utf8charlen, render = x || y || w || h;
 	long utf8codepoint = 0;
 	const char *utf8str;
@@ -264,13 +262,17 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
 	FcPattern *fcpattern;
 	FcPattern *match;
 	XftResult result;
-	int charexists = 0;
+	int charexists = 0, overflow = 0;
+	/* keep track of a couple codepoints for which we have no match. */
+	enum { nomatches_len = 64 };
+	static struct { long codepoint[nomatches_len]; unsigned int idx; } nomatches;
+	static unsigned int ellipsis_width = 0;
 
-	if (!drw || (render && !drw->scheme) || !text || !drw->fonts)
+	if (!drw || (render && (!drw->scheme || !w)) || !text || !drw->fonts)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!render) {
-		w = ~w;
+		w = invert ? invert : ~invert;
 	} else {
 		XSetForeground(drw->dpy, drw->gc, drw->scheme[invert ? ColFg : ColBg].pixel);
 		XFillRectangle(drw->dpy, drw->drawable, drw->gc, x, y, w, h);
@@ -282,8 +284,10 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
 	}
 
 	usedfont = drw->fonts;
+	if (!ellipsis_width && render)
+		ellipsis_width = drw_fontset_getwidth(drw, "...");
 	while (1) {
-		utf8strlen = 0;
+		ew = ellipsis_len = utf8strlen = 0;
 		utf8str = text;
 		nextfont = NULL;
 		while (*text) {
@@ -291,9 +295,27 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
 			for (curfont = drw->fonts; curfont; curfont = curfont->next) {
 				charexists = charexists || XftCharExists(drw->dpy, curfont->xfont, utf8codepoint);
 				if (charexists) {
-					if (curfont == usedfont) {
+					drw_font_getexts(curfont, text, utf8charlen, &tmpw, NULL);
+					if (ew + ellipsis_width <= w) {
+						/* keep track where the ellipsis still fits */
+						ellipsis_x = x + ew;
+						ellipsis_w = w - ew;
+						ellipsis_len = utf8strlen;
+					}
+
+					if (ew + tmpw > w) {
+						overflow = 1;
+						/* called from drw_fontset_getwidth_clamp():
+						 * it wants the width AFTER the overflow
+						 */
+						if (!render)
+							x += tmpw;
+						else
+							utf8strlen = ellipsis_len;
+					} else if (curfont == usedfont) {
 						utf8strlen += utf8charlen;
 						text += utf8charlen;
+						ew += tmpw;
 					} else {
 						nextfont = curfont;
 					}
@@ -301,36 +323,25 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
 				}
 			}
 
-			if (!charexists || nextfont)
+			if (overflow || !charexists || nextfont)
 				break;
 			else
 				charexists = 0;
 		}
 
 		if (utf8strlen) {
-			drw_font_getexts(usedfont, utf8str, utf8strlen, &ew, NULL);
-			/* shorten text if necessary */
-			for (len = MIN(utf8strlen, sizeof(buf) - 1); len && ew > w; len--)
-				drw_font_getexts(usedfont, utf8str, len, &ew, NULL);
-
-			if (len) {
-				memcpy(buf, utf8str, len);
-				buf[len] = '\0';
-				if (len < utf8strlen)
-					for (i = len; i && i > len - 3; buf[--i] = '.')
-						; /* NOP */
-
-				if (render) {
-					ty = y + (h - usedfont->h) / 2 + usedfont->xfont->ascent;
-					XftDrawStringUtf8(d, &drw->scheme[invert ? ColBg : ColFg],
-					                  usedfont->xfont, x, ty, (XftChar8 *)buf, len);
-				}
-				x += ew;
-				w -= ew;
+			if (render) {
+				ty = y + (h - usedfont->h) / 2 + usedfont->xfont->ascent;
+				XftDrawStringUtf8(d, &drw->scheme[invert ? ColBg : ColFg],
+				                  usedfont->xfont, x, ty, (XftChar8 *)utf8str, utf8strlen);
 			}
+			x += ew;
+			w -= ew;
 		}
+		if (render && overflow)
+			drw_text(drw, ellipsis_x, y, ellipsis_w, h, 0, "...", invert);
 
-		if (!*text) {
+		if (!*text || overflow) {
 			break;
 		} else if (nextfont) {
 			charexists = 0;
@@ -340,6 +351,12 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
 			 * character must be drawn. */
 			charexists = 1;
 
+			for (i = 0; i < nomatches_len; ++i) {
+				/* avoid calling XftFontMatch if we know we won't find a match */
+				if (utf8codepoint == nomatches.codepoint[i])
+					goto no_match;
+			}
+
 			fccharset = FcCharSetCreate();
 			FcCharSetAddChar(fccharset, utf8codepoint);
 
@@ -368,6 +385,8 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
 					curfont->next = usedfont;
 				} else {
 					xfont_free(usedfont);
+					nomatches.codepoint[++nomatches.idx % nomatches_len] = utf8codepoint;
+no_match:
 					usedfont = drw->fonts;
 				}
 			}
@@ -397,6 +416,15 @@ drw_fontset_getwidth(Drw *drw, const char *text)
 	return drw_text(drw, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, text, 0);
 }
 
+unsigned int
+drw_fontset_getwidth_clamp(Drw *drw, const char *text, unsigned int n)
+{
+	unsigned int tmp = 0;
+	if (drw && drw->fonts && text && n)
+		tmp = drw_text(drw, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, text, n);
+	return MIN(n, tmp);
+}
+
 void
 drw_font_getexts(Fnt *font, const char *text, unsigned int len, unsigned int *w, unsigned int *h)
 {
diff --git a/drw.h b/drw.h
index 4c67419..fd7631b 100644
--- a/drw.h
+++ b/drw.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ void drw_free(Drw *drw);
 Fnt *drw_fontset_create(Drw* drw, const char *fonts[], size_t fontcount);
 void drw_fontset_free(Fnt* set);
 unsigned int drw_fontset_getwidth(Drw *drw, const char *text);
+unsigned int drw_fontset_getwidth_clamp(Drw *drw, const char *text, unsigned int n);
 void drw_font_getexts(Fnt *font, const char *text, unsigned int len, unsigned int *w, unsigned int *h);
 
 /* Colorscheme abstraction */