NAME

       dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager

SYNOPSIS

       dvtm  [-v]  [-M]  [-m  modifier]  [-d  delay]  [-h  lines]  [-t  title]  [-s  status-fifo]  [-c cmd-fifo]
       [command ...]

DESCRIPTION

       dvtm is a dynamic tiling window manager for the console.  As a console window manager it tries to make it
       easy to work with multiple console based applications.

OPTIONS

       -v     Print version information to standard output and exit.

       -M     Toggle default mouse grabbing upon startup. Use this to allow normal mouse operation under X.

       -m modifier
              Set command modifier at runtime.

       -d delay
              Set the delay ncurses waits before deciding if a  character  that  might  be  part  of  an  escape
              sequence is actually part of an escape sequence.

       -h lines
              Set the scrollback history buffer size at runtime.

       -t title
              Set a static terminal title and don't change it to the one of the currently focused window.

       -s status-fifo
              Open  or  create  the named pipe status-fifo read its content and display it in the statusbar. See
              the dvtm-status script for an usage example.

       -c cmd-fifo
              Open or create the named pipe cmd-fifo and look for commands to  execute  which  were  defined  in
              config.h.

       command ...
              Execute command(s), each in a separate window.

USAGE

   Keyboard commands
       Mod    Each  keybinding  begins with Mod which defaults to ^g, but can be changed in config.h or with the
              -m command line option.

       Mod-c  Create a new shell window.

       Mod-C  Create a new shell window using the current working directory of the focused window.

       Mod-x-x
              Close focused window.

       Mod-l  Increases the master area width about 5% (all except grid and fullscreen layout).

       Mod-h  Decreases the master area width about 5% (all except grid and fullscreen layout).

       Mod-i  Increase number of windows displayed in the master area.

       Mod-d  Decrease number of windows displayed in the master area.

       Mod-j  Focus next window.

       Mod-k  Focus previous window.

       Mod-J  Focus next non minimized window.

       Mod-K  Focus previous non minimized window.

       Mod-n  Focus the n-th window.

       Mod-Tab
              Focus previously selected window.

       Mod-.  Toggle minimization of current window.

       Mod-m  Maximize current window (change to fullscreen layout).

       Shift-PageUp
       Mod-PageUp
              Scroll up.

       Shift-PageDown
       Mod-PageDown
              Scroll down.

       Mod-Space
              Toggle between defined layouts (affects all windows).

       Mod-Enter
              Zooms/cycles current window to/from master area.

       Mod-f  Change to vertical stack tiling layout.

       Mod-b  Change to bottom stack tiling layout.

       Mod-g  Change to grid layout.

       Mod-s  Show/hide the status bar.

       Mod-S  Toggle position of the status bar between top and bottom.

       Mod-r
       Mod-^L Redraw whole screen.

       Mod-a  Toggle keyboard multiplexing mode, if activated keypresses are sent to all visible windows.

       Mod-M  Toggle dvtm mouse grabbing.

       Mod-e  Enter copy mode (see section below for further information).

       Mod-/  Enter copy mode and start searching forward (assumes a vi-like editor).

       Mod-p  Paste last copied text from copy mode at current cursor position.

       Mod-?  Show this manual page.

       Mod-Mod
              Send the Mod key.

       Mod-F[1..n]
       Mod-v-[1..n]
              View all windows with nth tag.

       Mod-0  View all windows with any tag.

       Mod-v-Tab
              Toggles to the previously selected tags.

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

       Mod-t-[1..n]
              Apply nth tag to focused window.

       Mod-T-[1..n]
              Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window.

       Mod-q-q
              Quit dvtm.

   Mouse commands
       Copy and Paste
              By default dvtm captures mouse events to provide the actions  listed  below.   Unfortunately  this
              interferes  with  the  standard  X copy and paste mechanism.  To work around this you need to hold
              down Shift while selecting or pasting text.   Alternatively  you  can  disable  mouse  support  at
              compile time, start dvtm with the -M flag or toggle mouse support during runtime with Mod-M.

       Button1 click
              Focus window.

       Button1 double click
              Focus window and toggle maximization.

       Button2 click
              Zoom/cycle current window to/from master area.

       Button3 click
              Toggle minimization of current window.

   Copy mode
       Copy  mode  gives  easy  access  to past output by piping it to an editor. What ever the editor prints to
       stdout upon exiting will be stored in an internal register and can be  pasted  into  other  clients  (via
       Mod-p )

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       DVTM   Each process spawned by dvtm will have this variable set to the dvtm version it is running under.

       DVTM_WINDOW_ID
              Each process also has access to its constant and unique window id.

       DVTM_CMD_FIFO
              If  the -c command line argument was specified upon dvtm startup, this variable will be set to the
              file name of the named pipe. Thus allowing the process to send commands back to dvtm.

       DVTM_TERM
              By default dvtm uses its own terminfo file and therefore sets TERM=dvtm within the client windows.
              This can be overridden by setting the DVTM_TERM environment variable  to  a  valid  terminal  name
              before launching dvtm.

       DVTM_EDITOR
              When  entering  the  copymode  dvtm  pipes  the  whole  scroll back buffer to DVTM_EDITOR which is
              launched with - (indicating to read from stdin) as its only argument.  If DVTM_EDITOR is  not  set
              EDITOR  is  checked,  if  this  is  also  not  set the default value specified in config.h is used
              instead.

EXAMPLE

       See the dvtm-status script as an example of how to display text in the status bar.

CUSTOMIZATION

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

AUTHOR

       dvtm is written by Marc André Tanner <mat at brain-dump.org>

                                                    dvtm-0.15                                            DVTM(1)