is a dynamic window manager for X11. It consists of a small status bar at the

top of the screen and arranges windows in either a tiled or floating mode.

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If 

.B dwm

is in tiled mode, it consists of two columns. The left master column

contains only one window per time, the right column contains all other windows 

in a stack. In tiled mode

.B dwm

.B don't

handles incremental resizals, some terminal programs like

.B xterm

may not work correctly with this in tiled mode.

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If

.B dwm

is in floating mode, it arranges all windows with the reqyested geometry and

allows the user to move or resize them. Some windows, like

dialog windows, are treated floating even if

.B dwm

is in tiled mode. In floating mode

.B dwm

handles incremental resizals.

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Windows are grouped by tags. You can view all windows with a specific tag per

time.  However, each window is allowed to contain more than one tag, which

allows to make windows visible in all views.

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.B dwm

reads from

.I stdin

to display status text, if written.

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.B dwm

draws 1-pixel borders around windows to indicate the focus state and save as

much screen real estate as possible. Unfocused windows contain a small bar

in front of the window indicating the tags and the window title.

prints version information to

.I stdout

, then exits.

.SS Customization

is customized through editing its source code. It is assumed that

dwm users are high experienced users who know how a window manager works

and who are able to patch

.B dwm

for their needs. This keeps

.B dwm

fast, secure and simple, because it does not process any input data, except

window properties and the status text read from

.I stdin .

.SH BUGS

Some terminal programs do not behave correctly in tiled mode, because

incremental resizals are ignored to use maximum screen real estate. You can

patch the code to fix this.