.SH NAME

dwm \- dynamic window manager

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B dwm

.RB [ \-v ]

.SH DESCRIPTION

dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled and

floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimizing the

environment for the application in use and the task performed.

.P

In tiled layout 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 floating layout windows can be

resized and moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed floating,

regardless of the layout applied.

.P

Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple

tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with these tags.

.P

dwm contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the layout,

the title of the focused window, and the text read from standard input. A

floating window is indicated with an empty square and a maximized

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

corner.  The tags which are applied to one or more windows are indicated

with an empty square in the top left corner.

.P

dwm draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP

.B \-v

prints version information to standard output, then exits.

.SH USAGE

.SS Status bar

.TP

.B Standard input

is read and displayed in the status text area.

.TP

.B Button1

click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click on the layout

label toggles between tiled and floating layout.

.TP

.B Button3

click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag to/from the view.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Button1

click on a tag label applies that tag to the focused window.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Button3

click on a tag label adds/removes that tag to/from the focused window.

.SS Keyboard commands

.TP

.B Mod1\-Shift\-Return

Start

.BR xterm.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Return

Zooms/cycles current window to/from master area (tiled layout only).

.TP

.B Mod1\-b

Shows/hides the status bar.

.TP

.B Mod1\-h

Decreases the master area width about 5% (tiled layout only).

.TP

.B Mod1\-j

Focus next window.

.TP

.B Mod1\-k

Focus previous window.

.TP

.B Mod1\-l

Increases the master area width about 5% (tiled layout only).

.TP

.B Mod1\-m

Toggles maximization of current window.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Shift\-[1..n]

Apply

.RB nth

tag to current window.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Shift\-0

Apply all tags to current window.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Control\-Shift\-[1..n]

Add/remove

.B nth

tag to/from current window.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Shift\-c

Close focused window.

.TP

.B Mod1\-space

Toggle between tiled and floating layout (affects all windows).

.TP

.B Mod1\-Shift\-space

Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state.

.TP

.B Mod1\-[1..n]

View all windows with

.BR nth

tag.

.TP

.B Mod1\-0

View all windows with any tag.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Control\-[1..n]

Add/remove all windows with

.BR nth

tag to/from the view.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Shift\-q

Quit dwm.

.SS Mouse commands

.TP

.B Mod1\-Button1

Move current window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Button2

Zooms/cycles current window to/from master area. If it is floating (but not fixed) it will be toggled to the tiled state instead.

.TP

.B Mod1\-Button3

Resize current window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.

.SH CUSTOMIZATION

dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source

code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR dmenu (1)

.SH BUGS

The status bar may display

.BR "EOF"

when dwm has been started by an X session manager like

.BR xdm (1),

because those close standard output before executing dwm.

.P

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 reparenting window manager. As a workaround

you can use JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you

can set the following environment variable (to use the older Motif

backend instead):

.BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit .

.P

Recent GTK 2.10.9+ versions contain a broken

.BR Save\-As

file dialog implementation,

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.