diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 44a319f..5476feb 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Maintainer: Jef Roosens
 
-pkgname="jjr-dmenu"
-pkgver="5.2"
+pkgname=jjr-dmenu
+pkgver=5.3
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Chewing_Bever's custom build of Suckless's dmenu."
+url="https://git.rustybever.be/Chewing_Bever/dmenu"
+
 arch=(
     "x86_64"
     "x86_64_tigerlake"
@@ -11,11 +13,10 @@ arch=(
     "aarch64"
 )
 
-url="https://git.rustybever.be/Chewing_Bever/dmenu"
 license=("MIT")
 
-depends=("libxinerama" "libxft" "fontconfig" "freetype2")
-makedepends=("glibc" "gcc")
+depends=("glibc" "libxinerama" "libxft" "fontconfig" "freetype2")
+makedepends=("gcc")
 provides=("dmenu")
 conflicts=("dmenu-git")
 
@@ -24,19 +25,19 @@ source=("arg.h" "config.h" "config.mk" "dmenu.1" "dmenu.c" "dmenu_path.sh"
 "stest.c" "util.c" "util.h")
 sha256sums=('9ed2b2e3396fdebc8ecab2cdbb09db115cca015f63ec0443b8ccc56340b6b03c'
             '9ae33f74aed02823abb8381e553d38455541ce3b6a0d642282b693992e71caef'
-            'f6de4c72dab3b9bef214bd52e6a7dff22e87a3118abaffd26ec1ae589cf68b3f'
+            '5a6066f1cf97aaee4792708893faa1f16fad39d4dce22c79ccfb7590349fe0cc'
             '9f749419697381a1db77e9b23cb41629808fd7e451d475c9b5ee0e88bee803f6'
-            '5b2a53db7ba608d392efaa96be5530665b46107dc4e0ee1a864745a6e8a8587d'
+            'dc93fd213531f01c968ec073382d4c91c14a3fb2464e1a62e23e94653a74fb81'
             'a3f19e648e20eb80532dfe87e9bd9feeaa92df838e6ecc061f274c9da579d617'
             '564035fd8a8ade6504521d98fa10e8732e135403d546d04ca77316fe4a67b21c'
-            'a7c7358ce13c8571044b79d5d91d01314d9174793474a27faa37d23c75ab603f'
-            'c35796210ea8410ae096025cc0d7996dccb3d9936306dff7531a0bb253e079f5'
+            '8c9f81b98f447440cf59dd3eefda99eec4e7733266ad0c072612163ccff4e1df'
+            '7ed1cf72bfcb0f5444f338293aef74c455ce4ed5463f171a48358f64d7835d49'
             '9f8e922fcfc18ffcc4975dd0b1bee38302bd4e0c538251dfef6d77cd7ed59c89'
             'c32b5173eddf376296af085725cb878e4ca2603d4fda8bba3faac6a2bb1b4390'
             'ec98e8759049af796598f0790752a21a69eaea1d438b09c39922d4a9f4a7cfe2'
             '00d3389ef8858a565cf3fb3445620b90eb67d1a9b31434f4d54b05ed6c5abefb'
             'ba76404e61abbd734e315999ffe4e883419c4c69ff17a5d4d88a5cd11dd4b055'
-            'dec870d0b5834c9008ff62f495710daf524cffdf12d0cf8ba4fadf5643623987'
+            '1c093b9969daaf3e1a001b924c6c2da3770993916b444dfe65fe39aa0090aa1a'
             '1196a7b6efbf4cb3f5c435fffd72e7647f977483845d5c78c1c48d9ab8b96819')
 
 build() {
@@ -56,3 +57,5 @@ package() {
   # install $installopts "$docdir" README.terminfo.rst
   # install $installopts "$shrdir/$pkgname" "$_sourcedir/st.info"
 }
+
+# vim: ft=bash
diff --git a/config.mk b/config.mk
index ddb33fa..0ea1efd 100644
--- a/config.mk
+++ b/config.mk
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # dmenu version
-VERSION = 5.2
+VERSION = 5.3
 
 # paths
 PREFIX = /usr/local
@@ -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 b264d53..0363aa0 100644
--- a/dmenu.c
+++ b/dmenu.c
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ static char * cistrstr(const char *s, const char *sub);
 static int (*fstrncmp)(const char *, const char *, size_t) = strncasecmp;
 static char *(*fstrstr)(const char *, const char *) = cistrstr;
 
+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)
 {
@@ -85,10 +92,10 @@ 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;
 }
 
@@ -100,6 +107,9 @@ 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);
@@ -175,7 +185,7 @@ 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]);
@@ -320,7 +330,7 @@ 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;
@@ -493,7 +503,7 @@ keypress(XKeyEvent *ev)
 	switch(ksym) {
 	default:
 insert:
-		if (!iscntrl(*buf))
+		if (!iscntrl((unsigned char)*buf))
 			insert(buf, len);
 		break;
 	case XK_Delete:
@@ -595,9 +605,9 @@ insert:
 	case XK_Tab:
 		if (!sel)
 			return;
-		strncpy(text, sel->text, sizeof text - 1);
-		text[sizeof text - 1] = '\0';
-		cursor = strlen(text);
+		cursor = strnlen(sel->text, sizeof text - 1);
+		memcpy(text, sel->text, cursor);
+		text[cursor] = '\0';
 		match();
 		break;
 	}
@@ -627,29 +637,22 @@ paste(void)
 static void
 readstdin(void)
 {
-	char buf[sizeof text], *p;
-	size_t i, imax = 0, size = 0;
-	unsigned int tmpmax = 0;
+	char *line = NULL;
+	size_t i, junk, size = 0;
+	ssize_t len;
 
 	/* read each line from stdin and add it to the item list */
-	for (i = 0; fgets(buf, sizeof buf, stdin); i++) {
+	for (i = 0; (len = getline(&line, &junk, stdin)) != -1; i++, line = NULL) {
 		if (i + 1 >= size / sizeof *items)
 			if (!(items = realloc(items, (size += BUFSIZ))))
-				die("cannot realloc %u 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 realloc %zu bytes:", size);
+		if (line[len - 1] == '\n')
+			line[len - 1] = '\0';
+		items[i].text = line;
 		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);
 }
 
@@ -758,7 +761,7 @@ 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 */
@@ -795,9 +798,8 @@ setup(void)
 static void
 usage(void)
 {
-	fputs("usage: dmenu [-bfiv] [-l lines] [-p prompt] [-fn font] [-m monitor]\n"
-	      "             [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] [-w windowid]\n", stderr);
-	exit(1);
+	die("usage: dmenu [-bfiv] [-l lines] [-p prompt] [-fn font] [-m monitor]\n"
+	    "             [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] [-w windowid]");
 }
 
 int
diff --git a/drw.c b/drw.c
index 4cdbcbe..a58a2b4 100644
--- a/drw.c
+++ b/drw.c
@@ -133,19 +133,6 @@ xfont_create(Drw *drw, const char *fontname, FcPattern *fontpattern)
 		die("no font specified.");
 	}
 
-	/* Do not allow using color fonts. This is a workaround for a BadLength
-	 * error from Xft with color glyphs. Modelled on the Xterm workaround. See
-	 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498269
-	 * https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1701/30932.html
-	 * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916349
-	 * and lots more all over the internet.
-	 */
-	FcBool iscol;
-	if(FcPatternGetBool(xfont->pattern, FC_COLOR, 0, &iscol) == FcResultMatch && iscol) {
-		XftFontClose(drw->dpy, xfont);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
 	font = ecalloc(1, sizeof(Fnt));
 	font->xfont = xfont;
 	font->pattern = pattern;
@@ -251,12 +238,10 @@ 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 +249,17 @@ 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 +271,10 @@ 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 +282,27 @@ 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 +310,25 @@ 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 +338,12 @@ 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);
 
@@ -351,7 +355,6 @@ drw_text(Drw *drw, int x, int y, unsigned int w, unsigned int h, unsigned int lp
 			fcpattern = FcPatternDuplicate(drw->fonts->pattern);
 			FcPatternAddCharSet(fcpattern, FC_CHARSET, fccharset);
 			FcPatternAddBool(fcpattern, FC_SCALABLE, FcTrue);
-			FcPatternAddBool(fcpattern, FC_COLOR, FcFalse);
 
 			FcConfigSubstitute(NULL, fcpattern, FcMatchPattern);
 			FcDefaultSubstitute(fcpattern);
@@ -368,6 +371,8 @@ 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 +402,15 @@ 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 */
diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
index fe044fc..96b82c9 100644
--- a/util.c
+++ b/util.c
@@ -6,18 +6,9 @@
 
 #include "util.h"
 
-void *
-ecalloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
-{
-	void *p;
-
-	if (!(p = calloc(nmemb, size)))
-		die("calloc:");
-	return p;
-}
-
 void
-die(const char *fmt, ...) {
+die(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
 	va_list ap;
 
 	va_start(ap, fmt);
@@ -33,3 +24,13 @@ die(const char *fmt, ...) {
 
 	exit(1);
 }
+
+void *
+ecalloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
+{
+	void *p;
+
+	if (!(p = calloc(nmemb, size)))
+		die("calloc:");
+	return p;
+}