dwm \- dynamic window manager (Luke Smith <https://lukesmith.xyz>'s build)

.B dwm

.RB [ \-v ]

dwm is a dynamic window manager for X.

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dwm "orders" windows based on recency and primacy, while dwm layouts may

change, the most recent "master" window is shown in the most prominent

position. There are bindings for cycling through and promoting windows to the

master position.

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

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

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Each screen contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the

layout, the title of the focused window, and the text read from the root window

name property, if the screen is focused. A floating window is indicated with an

empty square and a maximised 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.

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

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prints version information to stderr, then exits.

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is read and displayed in the status text area. It can be set with the

.BR xsetroot (1)

command.

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

label toggles between tiled and floating layout.

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

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

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

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Start terminal,

.BR st(1).

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Spawn

.BR dmenu(1)

for launching other programs.

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Spawn

.BR dmenuunicode(1)

for selecting emoji.

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Decrease/increase volume by 5 and 15 respectively.

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Toggles bar on and off.

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Close focused window.

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Sets tiled/bstack layouts.

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Toggle fullscreen window.

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Toggle floating layout.

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Sets Fibonacci spiral/dwinde layouts.

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Sets centered master layout.

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Sets centered master or floating master layouts.

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Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area.

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Focus next/previous window.

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Move selected window down/up in stack.

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Increase/decrease number of windows in master area.

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Increase master area size.

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Decrease master area size.

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Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state.

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Toggles to the previously selected tags.

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Moves to the previous tag.

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Moves selected window to the previous tag.

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Moves to the next tag.

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Moves selected window to the next tag.

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Moves to the previous tag.

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Moves selected window to the previous tag.

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Moves to the next tag.

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Moves selected window to the next tag.

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Toggle gaps.

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Increase gaps between windows.

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Decrease gaps between windows.

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Apply nth tag to focused window.

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Apply all tags to focused window.

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Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window.

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View all windows with nth tag.

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View all windows with any tag.

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Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view.

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Quit dwm.

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Menu to refresh/quit/reboot/shutdown.

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

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Toggles focused window between floating and tiled state.

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

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

code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.

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Restart the dwm process.

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Cleanly terminate the dwm process.

.BR dmenu (1),

.BR st (1)

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. Possible workarounds

are using JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or setting the

environment variable

.BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit

(to use the older Motif backend instead) or running

.B xprop -root -f _NET_WM_NAME 32a -set _NET_WM_NAME LG3D

or

.B wmname LG3D

(to pretend that a non-reparenting window manager is running that the

XToolkit/XAWT backend can recognize) or when using OpenJDK setting the environment variable

.BR _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 .

Send all bug reports with a patch to [email protected].