dwm.1 (5515B)
1 .TH DWM 1 dwm\-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 dwm \- dynamic window manager (Luke Smith <https://lukesmith.xyz>'s build) 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B dwm 6 .RB [ \-v ] 7 .SH DESCRIPTION 8 dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. 9 .P 10 dwm "orders" windows based on recency and primacy, while dwm layouts may 11 change, the most recent "master" window is shown in the most prominent 12 position. There are bindings for cycling through and promoting windows to the 13 master position. 14 .P 15 Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple 16 tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with these tags. 17 .P 18 Each screen contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the 19 layout, the title of the focused window, and the text read from the root window 20 name property, if the screen is focused. A floating window is indicated with an 21 empty square and a maximised floating window is indicated with a filled square 22 before the windows title. The selected tags are indicated with a different 23 color. The tags of the focused window are indicated with a filled square in the 24 top left corner. The tags which are applied to one or more windows are 25 indicated with an empty square in the top left corner. 26 .P 27 dwm draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state. 28 .SH OPTIONS 29 .TP 30 .B \-v 31 prints version information to stderr, then exits. 32 .SH USAGE 33 .SS Status bar 34 .TP 35 .B X root window name 36 is read and displayed in the status text area. It can be set with the 37 .BR xsetroot (1) 38 command. 39 .TP 40 .B Left click 41 click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click on the layout 42 label toggles between tiled and floating layout. 43 .TP 44 .B Right click 45 click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag to/from the view. 46 .TP 47 .B Super\-Left click 48 click on a tag label applies that tag to the focused window. 49 .TP 50 .B Super\-Right click 51 click on a tag label adds/removes that tag to/from the focused window. 52 .SS Keyboard commands 53 .TP 54 .B Super\-Return 55 Start terminal, 56 .BR st(1). 57 .TP 58 .B Super\-d 59 Spawn 60 .BR dmenu(1) 61 for launching other programs. 62 .TP 63 .B Super\-grave 64 Spawn 65 .BR dmenuunicode(1) 66 for selecting emoji. 67 .TP 68 .B Super\-minus/plus, Super\-Shift\-minus/plus 69 Decrease/increase volume by 5 and 15 respectively. 70 .TP 71 .B Super\-b 72 Toggles bar on and off. 73 .TP 74 .B Super\-q 75 Close focused window. 76 .TP 77 .B Super\-t/T 78 Sets tiled/bstack layouts. 79 .TP 80 .B Super\-f 81 Toggle fullscreen window. 82 .TP 83 .B Super\-F 84 Toggle floating layout. 85 .TP 86 .B Super\-y/Y 87 Sets Fibonacci spiral/dwinde layouts. 88 .TP 89 .B Super\-u/U 90 Sets centered master layout. 91 .TP 92 .B Super\-i/I 93 Sets centered master or floating master layouts. 94 .TP 95 .B Super\-space 96 Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area. 97 .TP 98 .B Super\-j/k 99 Focus next/previous window. 100 .TP 101 .B Super\-Shift\-j/k 102 Move selected window down/up in stack. 103 .TP 104 .B Super\-o/O 105 Increase/decrease number of windows in master area. 106 .TP 107 .B Super\-l 108 Increase master area size. 109 .TP 110 .B Super\-h 111 Decrease master area size. 112 .TP 113 .B Super\-Shift\-space 114 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state. 115 .TP 116 .B Super\-Tab 117 Toggles to the previously selected tags. 118 .TP 119 .B Super\-g 120 Moves to the previous tag. 121 .TP 122 .B Super\-Shift\-g 123 Moves selected window to the previous tag. 124 .TP 125 .B Super\-; 126 Moves to the next tag. 127 .TP 128 .B Super\-Shift\-; 129 Moves selected window to the next tag. 130 .TP 131 .B Super\-PageUp 132 Moves to the previous tag. 133 .TP 134 .B Super\-Shift\-PageUp 135 Moves selected window to the previous tag. 136 .TP 137 .B Super\-Pagedown 138 Moves to the next tag. 139 .TP 140 .B Super\-Shift\-PageDown 141 Moves selected window to the next tag. 142 .TP 143 .B Super\-a 144 Toggle gaps. 145 .TP 146 .B Super\-z 147 Increase gaps between windows. 148 .TP 149 .B Super\-x 150 Decrease gaps between windows. 151 .TP 152 .B Super\-Shift\-[1..n] 153 Apply nth tag to focused window. 154 .TP 155 .B Super\-Shift\-0 156 Apply all tags to focused window. 157 .TP 158 .B Super\-Control\-Shift\-[1..n] 159 Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window. 160 .TP 161 .B Super\-[1..n] 162 View all windows with nth tag. 163 .TP 164 .B Super\-0 165 View all windows with any tag. 166 .TP 167 .B Super\-Control\-[1..n] 168 Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view. 169 .TP 170 .B Super\-Shift\-q 171 Quit dwm. 172 .TP 173 .B Mod1\-Control\-Shift\-q 174 Menu to refresh/quit/reboot/shutdown. 175 .SS Mouse commands 176 .TP 177 .B Super\-Left click 178 Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state. 179 .TP 180 .B Super\-Middle click 181 Toggles focused window between floating and tiled state. 182 .TP 183 .B Super\-Right click 184 Resize focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state. 185 .SH CUSTOMIZATION 186 dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source 187 code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple. 188 .SH SIGNALS 189 .TP 190 .B SIGHUP - 1 191 Restart the dwm process. 192 .TP 193 .B SIGTERM - 15 194 Cleanly terminate the dwm process. 195 .SH SEE ALSO 196 .BR dmenu (1), 197 .BR st (1) 198 .SH ISSUES 199 Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows 200 only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early 201 JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. Possible workarounds 202 are using JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or setting the 203 environment variable 204 .BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit 205 (to use the older Motif backend instead) or running 206 .B xprop -root -f _NET_WM_NAME 32a -set _NET_WM_NAME LG3D 207 or 208 .B wmname LG3D 209 (to pretend that a non-reparenting window manager is running that the 210 XToolkit/XAWT backend can recognize) or when using OpenJDK setting the environment variable 211 .BR _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 . 212 .SH BUGS 213 Send all bug reports with a patch to hackers@suckless.org.