1.TH DWM 1 dwm\-4.3
  2.SH NAME
  3dwm \- dynamic window manager
  4.SH SYNOPSIS
  5.B dwm
  6.RB [ \-v ]
  7.SH DESCRIPTION
  8dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled and
  9floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimizing the
 10environment for the application in use and the task performed.
 11.P
 12In tiled layout windows are managed in a master and stacking area. The master
 13area contains the window which currently needs most attention, whereas the
 14stacking area contains all other windows. In floating layout windows can be
 15resized and moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed floating,
 16regardless of the layout applied.
 17.P
 18Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple
 19tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with these tags.
 20.P
 21dwm contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the layout,
 22the title of the focused window, and the text read from standard input. A
 23floating window is indicated with an empty square and a maximized
 24floating window is indicated with a filled square before the windows
 25title.  The selected tags are indicated with a different color. The tags of
 26the focused window are indicated with a filled square in the top left
 27corner.  The tags which are applied to one or more windows are indicated
 28with an empty square in the top left corner.
 29.P
 30dwm draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state.
 31.SH OPTIONS
 32.TP
 33.B \-v
 34prints version information to standard output, then exits.
 35.SH USAGE
 36.SS Status bar
 37.TP
 38.B Standard input
 39is read and displayed in the status text area.
 40.TP
 41.B Button1
 42click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click on the layout
 43label toggles between tiled and floating layout.
 44.TP
 45.B Button3
 46click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag to/from the view.
 47.TP
 48.B Mod1\-Button1
 49click on a tag label applies that tag to the focused window.
 50.TP
 51.B Mod1\-Button3
 52click on a tag label adds/removes that tag to/from the focused window.
 53.SS Keyboard commands
 54.TP
 55.B Mod1\-Shift\-Return
 56Start
 57.BR xterm.
 58.TP
 59.B Mod1\-Return
 60Zooms/cycles current window to/from master area (tiled layout only).
 61.TP
 62.B Mod1\-b
 63Shows/hides the status bar.
 64.TP
 65.B Mod1\-h
 66Decreases the master area width about 5% (tiled layout only).
 67.TP
 68.B Mod1\-j
 69Focus next window.
 70.TP
 71.B Mod1\-k
 72Focus previous window.
 73.TP
 74.B Mod1\-l
 75Increases the master area width about 5% (tiled layout only).
 76.TP
 77.B Mod1\-m
 78Toggles maximization of current window.
 79.TP
 80.B Mod1\-Shift\-[1..n]
 81Apply
 82.RB nth
 83tag to current window.
 84.TP
 85.B Mod1\-Shift\-0
 86Apply all tags to current window.
 87.TP
 88.B Mod1\-Control\-Shift\-[1..n]
 89Add/remove
 90.B nth
 91tag to/from current window.
 92.TP
 93.B Mod1\-Shift\-c
 94Close focused window.
 95.TP
 96.B Mod1\-space
 97Toggle between tiled and floating layout (affects all windows).
 98.TP
 99.B Mod1\-Shift\-space
100Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state.
101.TP
102.B Mod1\-[1..n]
103View all windows with
104.BR nth
105tag.
106.TP
107.B Mod1\-0
108View all windows with any tag.
109.TP
110.B Mod1\-Control\-[1..n]
111Add/remove all windows with
112.BR nth
113tag to/from the view.
114.TP
115.B Mod1\-Shift\-q
116Quit dwm.
117.SS Mouse commands
118.TP
119.B Mod1\-Button1
120Move current window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
121.TP
122.B Mod1\-Button2
123Zooms/cycles current window to/from master area. If it is floating (but not fixed) it will be toggled to the tiled state instead.
124.TP
125.B Mod1\-Button3
126Resize current window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
127.SH CUSTOMIZATION
128dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source
129code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
130.SH SEE ALSO
131.BR dmenu (1)
132.SH BUGS
133The status bar may display
134.BR "EOF"
135when dwm has been started by an X session manager like
136.BR xdm (1),
137because those close standard output before executing dwm.
138.P
139Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows
140only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early
141JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As a workaround
142you can use JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you
143can set the following environment variable (to use the older Motif
144backend instead):
145.BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit .
146.P
147Recent GTK 2.10.9+ versions contain a broken
148.BR Save\-As
149file dialog implementation,
150which requests to reconfigure its window size in an endless loop. However, its
151window is still respondable during this state, so you can simply ignore the flicker
152until a new GTK version appears, which will fix this bug, approximately
153GTK 2.10.12+ versions.