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 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.

       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 st(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), st(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_NONREPARENTING=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.

                                                     dwm-6.1                                              DWM(1)