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