5 .B dwm |
5 .B dwm |
6 .RB [ \-v ] |
6 .RB [ \-v ] |
7 .SH DESCRIPTION |
7 .SH DESCRIPTION |
8 .SS Overview |
8 .SS Overview |
9 .B dwm |
9 .B dwm |
10 is a dynamic window manager for X11. |
10 is a dynamic window manager for X11. It consists of a small status bar at the |
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11 top of the screen and arranges windows in either a tiled or floating mode. |
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12 .P |
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13 If |
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14 .B dwm |
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15 is in tiled mode, it consists of two columns. The left master column |
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16 contains only one window per time, the right column contains all other windows |
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17 in a stack. In tiled mode |
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18 .B dwm |
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19 .B don't |
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20 handles incremental resizals, some terminal programs like |
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21 .B xterm |
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22 may not work correctly with this in tiled mode. |
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23 .P |
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24 If |
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25 .B dwm |
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26 is in floating mode, it arranges all windows with the reqyested geometry and |
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27 allows the user to move or resize them. Some windows, like |
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28 dialog windows, are treated floating even if |
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29 .B dwm |
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30 is in tiled mode. In floating mode |
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31 .B dwm |
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32 handles incremental resizals. |
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33 .P |
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34 Windows are grouped by tags. You can view all windows with a specific tag per |
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35 time. However, each window is allowed to contain more than one tag, which |
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36 allows to make windows visible in all views. |
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37 .P |
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38 .B dwm |
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39 reads from |
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40 .I stdin |
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41 to display status text, if written. |
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42 .P |
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43 .B dwm |
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44 draws 1-pixel borders around windows to indicate the focus state and save as |
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45 much screen real estate as possible. Unfocused windows contain a small bar |
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46 in front of the window indicating the tags and the window title. |
11 .SS Options |
47 .SS Options |
12 .TP |
48 .TP |
13 .B \-v |
49 .B \-v |
14 prints version information to stdout, then exits. |
50 prints version information to |
15 .SS Status text |
51 .I stdout |
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52 , then exits. |
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53 .SS Customization |
16 .B dwm |
54 .B dwm |
17 reads from stdin to display status text if provided. |
55 is customized through editing its source code. It is assumed that |
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56 dwm users are high experienced users who know how a window manager works |
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57 and who are able to patch |
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58 .B dwm |
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59 for their needs. This keeps |
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60 .B dwm |
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61 fast, secure and simple, because it does not process any input data, except |
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62 window properties and the status text read from |
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63 .I stdin . |
18 .SS Default Key Bindings |
64 .SS Default Key Bindings |
19 .TP 16 |
65 .TP 16 |
20 .I Key |
66 .I Key |
21 .I Action |
67 .I Action |
22 .TP |
68 .TP |