dwm.1 (5294B)
1 .TH DWM 1 dwm\-6.2 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 on the left contains one window by default, and the stacking area on the 14 right contains all other windows. The number of master area windows can be 15 adjusted from zero to an arbitrary number. In monocle layout all windows are 16 maximised to the screen size. In floating layout windows can be resized and 17 moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed floating, regardless of the 18 layout applied. 19 .P 20 Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple 21 tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with these tags. 22 .P 23 Each screen contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the 24 layout, the title of the focused window, and the text read from the root window 25 name property, if the screen is focused. A floating window is indicated with an 26 empty square and a maximised floating window is indicated with a filled square 27 before the windows title. The selected tags are indicated with a different 28 color. The tags of the focused window are indicated with a filled square in the 29 top left corner. The tags which are applied to one or more windows are 30 indicated with an empty square in the top left corner. 31 .P 32 dwm draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state. 33 .SH OPTIONS 34 .TP 35 .B \-v 36 prints version information to standard output, then exits. 37 .SH USAGE 38 .SS Status bar 39 .TP 40 .B X root window name 41 is read and displayed in the status text area. It can be set with the 42 .BR xsetroot (1) 43 command. 44 .TP 45 .B Button1 46 click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click on the layout 47 label toggles between tiled and floating layout. 48 .TP 49 .B Button3 50 click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag to/from the view. 51 .TP 52 .B Mod1\-Button1 53 click on a tag label applies that tag to the focused window. 54 .TP 55 .B Mod1\-Button3 56 click on a tag label adds/removes that tag to/from the focused window. 57 .SS Keyboard commands 58 .TP 59 .B Mod1\-Return 60 Start 61 .BR st(1). 62 .TP 63 .B Mod1\-p 64 Spawn 65 .BR dmenu(1) 66 for launching other programs. 67 .TP 68 .B Mod1\-, 69 Focus previous screen, if any. 70 .TP 71 .B Mod1\-. 72 Focus next screen, if any. 73 .TP 74 .B Mod1\-Shift\-, 75 Send focused window to previous screen, if any. 76 .TP 77 .B Mod1\-Shift\-. 78 Send focused window to next screen, if any. 79 .TP 80 .B Mod1\-b 81 Toggles bar on and off. 82 .TP 83 .B Win\-t 84 Sets tiled layout. 85 .TP 86 .B Win\-f 87 Sets floating layout. 88 .TP 89 .B Win\-m 90 Sets monocle layout. 91 .TP 92 .B Win\-d 93 Sets fibonacci dwindle layout. 94 .TP 95 .B Win\-s 96 Sets fibonacci spiral layout 97 .TP 98 .B Mod1\-space 99 Toggles between current and previous layout. 100 .TP 101 .B Mod1\-j 102 Focus next window. 103 .TP 104 .B Mod1\-k 105 Focus previous window. 106 .TP 107 .B Mod1\-i 108 Increase number of windows in master area. 109 .TP 110 .B Mod1\-d 111 Decrease number of windows in master area. 112 .TP 113 .B Mod1\-l 114 Increase master area size. 115 .TP 116 .B Mod1\-h 117 Decrease master area size. 118 .TP 119 .B Mod1\-Return 120 Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area (tiled layouts only). 121 .TP 122 .B Mod1\-Shift\-q 123 Close focused window. 124 .TP 125 .B Mod1\-Shift\-space 126 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state. 127 .TP 128 .B Mod1\-Tab 129 Toggles to the previously selected tags. 130 .TP 131 .B Mod1\-Shift\-[1..n] 132 Apply nth tag to focused window. 133 .TP 134 .B Mod1\-Shift\-0 135 Apply all tags to focused window. 136 .TP 137 .B Mod1\-Control\-Shift\-[1..n] 138 Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window. 139 .TP 140 .B Mod1\-[1..n] 141 View all windows with nth tag. 142 .TP 143 .B Mod1\-0 144 View all windows with any tag. 145 .TP 146 .B Mod1\-Control\-[1..n] 147 Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view. 148 .TP 149 .B Mod1\-Shift\-e 150 Quit dwm. 151 .TP 152 .B Mod1\-Control\-Shift\-q 153 Restart dwm. 154 .SS Mouse commands 155 .TP 156 .B Mod1\-Button1 157 Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state. 158 .TP 159 .B Mod1\-Button2 160 Toggles focused window between floating and tiled state. 161 .TP 162 .B Mod1\-Button3 163 Resize focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state. 164 .SH CUSTOMIZATION 165 dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source 166 code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple. 167 .SH SIGNALS 168 .TP 169 .B SIGHUP - 1 170 Restart the dwm process. 171 .TP 172 .B SIGTERM - 15 173 Cleanly terminate the dwm process. 174 .SH SEE ALSO 175 .BR dmenu (1), 176 .BR st (1) 177 .SH ISSUES 178 Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows 179 only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early 180 JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. Possible workarounds 181 are using JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or setting the 182 environment variable 183 .BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit 184 (to use the older Motif backend instead) or running 185 .B xprop -root -f _NET_WM_NAME 32a -set _NET_WM_NAME LG3D 186 or 187 .B wmname LG3D 188 (to pretend that a non-reparenting window manager is running that the 189 XToolkit/XAWT backend can recognize) or when using OpenJDK setting the environment variable 190 .BR _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 . 191 .SH BUGS 192 Send all bug reports with a patch to hackers@suckless.org.