dwm.1

   1 .TH DWM 1 dwm\-VERSION
   2 .SH NAME
   3 dwm \- dynamic window manager
   4 .SH SYNOPSIS
   5 .B dwm
   6 .RB [ \-v ]
   7 .SH DESCRIPTION
   8 dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle
   9 and floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimising the
  10 environment for the application in use and the task performed.
  11 .P
  12 In tiled layouts windows are managed in a master and stacking area. The master
  13 area contains the window which currently needs most attention, whereas the
  14 stacking area contains all other windows. In monocle layout all windows are
  15 maximised to the screen size. In floating layout windows can be resized and
  16 moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed floating, regardless of the
  17 layout applied.
  18 .P
  19 Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple
  20 tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with these tags.
  21 .P
  22 Each screen contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the layout,
  23 the title of the focused window, and the text read from the root window name
  24 property, if the screen is focused. A floating window is indicated with an
  25 empty square and a maximised floating window is indicated with a filled square
  26 before the windows title.  The selected tags are indicated with a different
  27 color. The tags of the focused window are indicated with a filled square in the
  28 top left corner.  The tags which are applied to one or more windows are
  29 indicated with an empty square in the top left corner.
  30 .P
  31 dwm draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state.
  32 .SH OPTIONS
  33 .TP
  34 .B \-v
  35 prints version information to standard output, then exits.
  36 .SH USAGE
  37 .SS Status bar
  38 .TP
  39 .B Standard input
  40 is read and displayed in the status text area.
  41 .TP
  42 .B Button1
  43 click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click on the layout
  44 label toggles between tiled and floating layout.
  45 .TP
  46 .B Button3
  47 click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag to/from the view.
  48 .TP
  49 .B Mod1\-Button1
  50 click on a tag label applies that tag to the focused window.
  51 .TP
  52 .B Mod1\-Button3
  53 click on a tag label adds/removes that tag to/from the focused window.
  54 .SS Keyboard commands
  55 .TP
  56 .B Mod1\-Shift\-Return
  57 Start
  58 .BR xterm.
  59 .TP
  60 .B Mod1\-,
  61 Focus previous screen, if any.
  62 .TP
  63 .B Mod1\-.
  64 Focus next screen, if any.
  65 .TP
  66 .B Mod1\-Shift\-,
  67 Send focused window to previous screen, if any.
  68 .TP
  69 .B Mod1\-Shift\-,
  70 Send focused window to next screen, if any.
  71 .TP
  72 .B Mod1\-b
  73 Toggles bar on and off.
  74 .TP
  75 .B Mod1\-t
  76 Sets tiled layout.
  77 .TP
  78 .B Mod1\-f
  79 Sets floating layout.
  80 .TP
  81 .B Mod1\-m
  82 Sets monocle layout.
  83 .TP
  84 .B Mod1\-space
  85 Toggles between current and previous layout.
  86 .TP
  87 .B Mod1\-j
  88 Focus next window.
  89 .TP
  90 .B Mod1\-k
  91 Focus previous window.
  92 .TP
  93 .B Mod1\-h
  94 Decrease master area size.
  95 .TP
  96 .B Mod1\-l
  97 Increase master area size.
  98 .TP
  99 .B Mod1\-Return
 100 Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area (tiled layouts only).
 101 .TP
 102 .B Mod1\-Shift\-c
 103 Close focused window.
 104 .TP
 105 .B Mod1\-Shift\-space
 106 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state.
 107 .TP
 108 .B Mod1\-Tab
 109 Toggles to the previously selected tags.
 110 .TP
 111 .B Mod1\-Shift\-[1..n]
 112 Apply
 113 .RB nth
 114 tag to focused window.
 115 .TP
 116 .B Mod1\-Shift\-0
 117 Apply all tags to focused window.
 118 .TP
 119 .B Mod1\-Control\-Shift\-[1..n]
 120 Add/remove
 121 .B nth
 122 tag to/from focused window.
 123 .TP
 124 .B Mod1\-[1..n]
 125 View all windows with
 126 .BR nth
 127 tag.
 128 .TP
 129 .B Mod1\-0
 130 View all windows with any tag.
 131 .TP
 132 .B Mod1\-Control\-[1..n]
 133 Add/remove all windows with
 134 .BR nth
 135 tag to/from the view.
 136 .TP
 137 .B Mod1\-Shift\-q
 138 Quit dwm.
 139 .SS Mouse commands
 140 .TP
 141 .B Mod1\-Button1
 142 Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
 143 .TP
 144 .B Mod1\-Button2
 145 Toggles focused window between floating and tiled state.
 146 .TP
 147 .B Mod1\-Button3
 148 Resize focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
 149 .SH CUSTOMIZATION
 150 dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source
 151 code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
 152 .SH SEE ALSO
 153 .BR dmenu (1)
 154 .SH BUGS
 155 The status bar may display
 156 .BR "EOF"
 157 when dwm has been started by an X session manager like
 158 .BR xdm (1),
 159 because those close standard output before executing dwm.
 160 .P
 161 Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows
 162 only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early
 163 JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As a workaround
 164 you can use JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you
 165 can set the following environment variable (to use the older Motif
 166 backend instead):
 167 .BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit .
 168 .P
 169 GTK 2.10.9+ versions contain a broken
 170 .BR Save\-As
 171 file dialog implementation,
 172 which requests to reconfigure its window size in an endless loop. However, its
 173 window is still respondable during this state, so you can simply ignore the flicker
 174 until a new GTK version appears, which will fix this bug, approximately
 175 GTK 2.10.12+ versions.