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.TH DWM 1 dwm\-VERSION
.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, monocle
and floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimising the
environment for the application in use and the task performed.
.P
In tiled layouts 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 monocle layout all windows are
maximised to the screen size. 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
Each screen contains two small status bars.
.P
One bar 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.
.P
Another bar contains a tab for each window of the current view and allows
navigation between windows, especially in the monocle mode. The different
display modes of this bar are described under the Mod1\-w Keybord command
section. When a single tag is selected, that tag is indicated in the left corner
of the tab bar.
.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 X root window name
is read and displayed in the status text area. It can be set with the
.BR xsetroot (1)
command.
.SS Keyboard commands
.TP
.B Mod1\-Return
Start
.BR xterm (1).
.TP
.B Mod1\-,
Focus previous screen, if any.
.TP
.B Mod1\-.
Focus next screen, if any.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-,
Send focused window to previous screen, if any.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-.
Send focused window to next screen, if any.
.TP
.B Mod1\-e
Sets tiled layout.
.TP
.B Mod1\-f
Sets floating layout.
.TP
.B Mod1\-w
Sets monocle layout.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Space
Toggles between current and previous layout.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Right
Focus next window.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Left
Focus previous window.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Up
Increase clients in master area.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Down
Decrease clients in master area.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift-Right
Increase master area size.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift-Left
Decrease master area size.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift-Return
Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area (tiled layouts only).
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-q
Close focused window.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-Space
Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Tab
Toggles to the previously selected tags.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-[1..n]
Apply nth tag to focused window.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-0
Apply all tags to focused window.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Control\-Shift\-[1..n]
Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window.
.TP
.B Mod1\-[1..n]
View all windows with nth tag.
.TP
.B Mod1\-0
View all windows with any tag.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Control\-[1..n]
Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-e
Quit dwm.
.SS Mouse commands
.TP
.B Mod1\-Button1
Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Button3
Resize focused 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
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 .
.P
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.
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