dwm.1 (4972B)
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 .P 29 .I 30 libxft-bgra 31 should be installed for this build of dwm. Arch users may install it via the 32 AUR. Color characters and emoji are inabled, but these will cause crashes 33 without the fix 34 .I 35 libxft-bgra 36 offers. 37 .SH OPTIONS 38 .TP 39 .B \-v 40 prints version information to standard output, then exits. 41 .SH USAGE 42 .SS Status bar 43 .TP 44 .B X root window name 45 is read and displayed in the status text area. It can be set with the 46 .BR xsetroot (1) 47 command. 48 .TP 49 .B Left click 50 click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click on the layout 51 label toggles between tiled and floating layout. 52 .TP 53 .B Right click 54 click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag to/from the view. 55 .TP 56 .B Super\-Left click 57 click on a tag label applies that tag to the focused window. 58 .TP 59 .B Super\-Right click 60 click on a tag label adds/removes that tag to/from the focused window. 61 .SS Keyboard commands 62 .TP 63 .B Super\-Return 64 Start terminal, 65 .BR st(1). 66 .TP 67 .B Super\-d 68 Spawn 69 .BR dmenu(1) 70 for launching other programs. 71 .TP 72 .B Super\-b 73 Toggles bar on and off. 74 .TP 75 .B Super\-q 76 Close focused window. 77 .TP 78 .B Super\-t 79 Sets tiled layout. 80 .TP 81 .B Super\-f 82 Toggle fullscreen window. 83 .TP 84 .B Super\-y 85 Sets Fibonacci spiral layout. 86 .TP 87 .B Super\-u 88 Sets centered master layout. 89 .TP 90 .B Super\-i 91 Sets floating centered master layout. 92 .TP 93 .B Super\-space 94 Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area (tiled layouts only). 95 .TP 96 .B Super\-j/k 97 Focus next/previous window. 98 .TP 99 .B Super\-Shift\-j/k 100 Move selected window down/up in stack. 101 .TP 102 .B Super\-o 103 Increase number of windows in master area. 104 .TP 105 .B Super\-Shift\-o 106 Decrease number of windows in master area. 107 .TP 108 .B Super\-l 109 Increase master area size. 110 .TP 111 .B Super\-h 112 Decrease master area size. 113 .TP 114 .B Super\-Shift\-space 115 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state. 116 .TP 117 .B Super\-Tab 118 Toggles to the previously selected tags. 119 .TP 120 .B Super\-Shift\-[1..n] 121 Apply nth tag to focused window. 122 .TP 123 .B Super\-Shift\-0 124 Apply all tags to focused window. 125 .TP 126 .B Super\-Control\-Shift\-[1..n] 127 Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window. 128 .TP 129 .B Super\-[1..n] 130 View all windows with nth tag. 131 .TP 132 .B Super\-0 133 View all windows with any tag. 134 .TP 135 .B Super\-Control\-[1..n] 136 Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view. 137 .TP 138 .B Super\-Shift\-q 139 Quit dwm. 140 .TP 141 .B Mod1\-Control\-Shift\-q 142 Restart dwm. 143 .SS Mouse commands 144 .TP 145 .B Super\-Left click 146 Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state. 147 .TP 148 .B Super\-Middle click 149 Toggles focused window between floating and tiled state. 150 .TP 151 .B Super\-Right click 152 Resize focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state. 153 .SH CUSTOMIZATION 154 dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source 155 code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple. 156 .SH SIGNALS 157 .TP 158 .B SIGHUP - 1 159 Restart the dwm process. 160 .TP 161 .B SIGTERM - 15 162 Cleanly terminate the dwm process. 163 .SH SEE ALSO 164 .BR dmenu (1), 165 .BR st (1) 166 .SH ISSUES 167 Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows 168 only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early 169 JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. Possible workarounds 170 are using JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or setting the 171 environment variable 172 .BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit 173 (to use the older Motif backend instead) or running 174 .B xprop -root -f _NET_WM_NAME 32a -set _NET_WM_NAME LG3D 175 or 176 .B wmname LG3D 177 (to pretend that a non-reparenting window manager is running that the 178 XToolkit/XAWT backend can recognize) or when using OpenJDK setting the environment variable 179 .BR _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 . 180 .SH BUGS 181 Send all bug reports with a patch to hackers@suckless.org.