DWM(1)DWM(1)NAMEdwm - dynamic window manager
SYNOPSISdwm [-v]
DESCRIPTIONdwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled,
monocle and floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically,
optimising the environment for the application in use and the task per‐
formed.
In tiled layouts windows are managed in a master and stacking area. The
master area contains the window which currently needs most attention,
whereas the stacking area contains all other windows. In monocle layout
all windows are maximised to the screen size. In floating layout win‐
dows can be resized and moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed
floating, regardless of the layout applied.
Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or mul‐
tiple tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with these
tags.
Each screen contains a small status bar which displays all available
tags, the layout, the title of the focused window, and the text read
from the root window name property, if the screen is focused. A float‐
ing window is indicated with an empty square and a maximised floating
window is indicated with a filled square before the windows title. The
selected tags are indicated with a different color. The tags of the
focused window are indicated with a filled square in the top left cor‐
ner. The tags which are applied to one or more windows are indicated
with an empty square in the top left corner.
dwm draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state.
OPTIONS-v prints version information to standard output, then exits.
USAGE
Status bar
X root window name
is read and displayed in the status text area. It can be set
with the xsetroot(1) command.
Button1
click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click
on the layout label toggles between tiled and floating layout.
Button3
click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag
to/from the view.
Mod1-Button1
click on a tag label applies that tag to the focused window.
Mod1-Button3
click on a tag label adds/removes that tag to/from the focused
window.
Keyboard commands
Mod1-Shift-Return
Start st(1).
Mod1-, Focus previous screen, if any.
Mod1-. Focus next screen, if any.
Mod1-Shift-,
Send focused window to previous screen, if any.
Mod1-Shift-.
Send focused window to next screen, if any.
Mod1-b Toggles bar on and off.
Mod1-t Sets tiled layout.
Mod1-f Sets floating layout.
Mod1-m Sets monocle layout.
Mod1-space
Toggles between current and previous layout.
Mod1-j Focus next window.
Mod1-k Focus previous window.
Mod1-i Increase clients in master area.
Mod1-d Decrease clients in master area.
Mod1-l Increase master area size.
Mod1-h Decrease master area size.
Mod1-Return
Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area (tiled layouts
only).
Mod1-Shift-c
Close focused window.
Mod1-Shift-space
Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state.
Mod1-Tab
Toggles to the previously selected tags.
Mod1-Shift-[1..n]
Apply nth tag to focused window.
Mod1-Shift-0
Apply all tags to focused window.
Mod1-Control-Shift-[1..n]
Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window.
Mod1-[1..n]
View all windows with nth tag.
Mod1-0 View all windows with any tag.
Mod1-Control-[1..n]
Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view.
Mod1-Shift-q
Quit dwm.
Mouse commands
Mod1-Button1
Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be tog‐
gled to the floating state.
Mod1-Button2
Toggles focused window between floating and tiled state.
Mod1-Button3
Resize focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be tog‐
gled to the floating state.
CUSTOMIZATIONdwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the
source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
SEE ALSOdmenu(1), st(1)BUGS
Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey
windows only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in
recent JDK 1.5 and early JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a repar‐
enting window manager. Possible workarounds are using JDK 1.4 (which
doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or setting the environment
variable AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit (to use the older Motif backend instead)
or running xprop -root -f _NET_WM_NAME 32a -set _NET_WM_NAME LG3D or
wmname LG3D (to pretend that a non-reparenting window manager is run‐
ning that the XToolkit/XAWT backend can recognize) or when using Open‐
JDK setting the environment variable _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1.
GTK 2.10.9+ versions contain a broken Save-As file dialog implementa‐
tion, which requests to reconfigure its window size in an endless loop.
However, its window is still respondable during this state, so you can
simply ignore the flicker until a new GTK version appears, which will
fix this bug, approximately GTK 2.10.12+ versions.
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