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 dwm contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the layout,
  23 the title of the focused window, and the text read from standard input. A
  24 floating window is indicated with an empty square and a maximised
  25 floating window is indicated with a filled square before the windows
  26 title.  The selected tags are indicated with a different color. The tags of
  27 the focused window are indicated with a filled square in the top left
  28 corner.  The tags which are applied to one or more windows are indicated
  29 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\-space
  61 Toggles between layouts.
  62 .TP
  63 .B Mod1\-j
  64 Focus next window.
  65 .TP
  66 .B Mod1\-Shift\-j
  67 Focus next window with exactly the same tags as the current one.
  68 .TP
  69 .B Mod1\-k
  70 Focus previous window.
  71 .TP
  72 .B Mod1\-Shift\-k
  73 Focus previous window with exactly the same tags as the current one.
  74 .TP
  75 .B Mod1\-h
  76 Decrease master area size.
  77 .TP
  78 .B Mod1\-l
  79 Increase master area size.
  80 .TP
  81 .B Mod1\-Return
  82 Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area (tiled layouts only).
  83 .TP
  84 .B Mod1\-Shift\-c
  85 Close focused window.
  86 .TP
  87 .B Mod1\-Shift\-space
  88 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state.
  89 .TP
  90 .B Mod1\-Tab
  91 Toggles to the previously selected tags.
  92 .TP
  93 .B Mod1\-r
  94 Re-applies tagging rules to all windows.
  95 .TP
  96 .B Mod1\-Shift\-[1..n]
  97 Apply
  98 .RB nth
  99 tag to focused window.
 100 .TP
 101 .B Mod1\-Shift\-0
 102 Apply all tags to focused window.
 103 .TP
 104 .B Mod1\-Control\-Shift\-[1..n]
 105 Add/remove
 106 .B nth
 107 tag to/from focused window.
 108 .TP
 109 .B Mod1\-[1..n]
 110 View all windows with
 111 .BR nth
 112 tag.
 113 .TP
 114 .B Mod1\-0
 115 View all windows with any tag.
 116 .TP
 117 .B Mod1\-Control\-[1..n]
 118 Add/remove all windows with
 119 .BR nth
 120 tag to/from the view.
 121 .TP
 122 .B Mod1\-Shift\-q
 123 Quit dwm.
 124 .SS Mouse commands
 125 .TP
 126 .B Mod1\-Button1
 127 Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
 128 .TP
 129 .B Mod1\-Button2
 130 Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area. If it is floating (but not fixed) it will be toggled to the tiled state instead.
 131 .TP
 132 .B Mod1\-Button3
 133 Resize focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
 134 .SH CUSTOMIZATION
 135 dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source
 136 code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
 137 .SH SEE ALSO
 138 .BR dmenu (1)
 139 .SH BUGS
 140 The status bar may display
 141 .BR "EOF"
 142 when dwm has been started by an X session manager like
 143 .BR xdm (1),
 144 because those close standard output before executing dwm.
 145 .P
 146 Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows
 147 only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early
 148 JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As a workaround
 149 you can use JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you
 150 can set the following environment variable (to use the older Motif
 151 backend instead):
 152 .BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit .
 153 .P
 154 GTK 2.10.9+ versions contain a broken
 155 .BR Save\-As
 156 file dialog implementation,
 157 which requests to reconfigure its window size in an endless loop. However, its
 158 window is still respondable during this state, so you can simply ignore the flicker
 159 until a new GTK version appears, which will fix this bug, approximately
 160 GTK 2.10.12+ versions.