DWM(1)							      General Commands Manual							    DWM(1)

NAME

       dwm - dynamic window manager

SYNOPSIS

       dwm [-v]

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.

       In tiled layouts windows are managed in a master and stacking area. The master area contains the window which currently needs  most  atten-
       tion,  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.

       Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple tags. Selecting certain tags displays all  windows  with  these
       tags.

       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.

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

OPTIONS

       -v     prints version information to standard output, then exits.

USAGE

   Status bar
       X root window name
	      is read and displayed in the status text area. It can be set with the xsetroot(1) command.

       Button1
	      click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click on the layout label toggles between tiled and floating layout.

       Button3
	      click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag to/from the view.

       Mod1-Button1
	      click on a tag label applies that tag to the focused window.

       Mod1-Button3
	      click on a tag label adds/removes that tag to/from the focused window.

   Keyboard commands
       Mod1-Shift-Return
	      Start uxterm(1).

       Mod1-, Focus previous screen, if any.

       Mod1-. Focus next screen, if any.

       Mod1-Shift-,
	      Send focused window to previous screen, if any.

       Mod1-Shift-.
	      Send focused window to next screen, if any.

       Mod1-b Toggles bar on and off.

       Mod1-t Sets tiled layout.

       Mod1-f Sets floating layout.

       Mod1-m Sets monocle layout.

       Mod1-space
	      Toggles between current and previous layout.

       Mod1-j Focus next window.

       Mod1-k Focus previous window.

       Mod1-i Increase clients in master area.

       Mod1-d Decrease clients in master area.

       Mod1-l Increase master area size.

       Mod1-h Decrease master area size.

       Mod1-Return
	      Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area (tiled layouts only).

       Mod1-Shift-c
	      Close focused window.

       Mod1-Shift-space
	      Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state.

       Mod1-Tab
	      Toggles to the previously selected tags.

       Mod1-Shift-[1..n]
	      Apply nth tag to focused window.

       Mod1-Shift-0
	      Apply all tags to focused window.

       Mod1-Control-Shift-[1..n]
	      Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window.

       Mod1-[1..n]
	      View all windows with nth tag.

       Mod1-0 View all windows with any tag.

       Mod1-Control-[1..n]
	      Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view.

       Mod1-Shift-q
	      Quit dwm.

   Mouse commands
       Mod1-Button1
	      Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.

       Mod1-Button2
	      Toggles focused window between floating and tiled state.

       Mod1-Button3
	      Resize focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.

CUSTOMIZATION

       dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.

SEE ALSO

       dmenu(1)

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 AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit (to use the older Motif backend
       instead) or running xprop -root -f _NET_WM_NAME 32a -set _NET_WM_NAME LG3D or 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 _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENT-
       ING=1.

       GTK 2.10.9+ versions contain a broken 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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