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 on the left contains
       one window by default, and the stacking area on the right contains  all  other  windows.  The  number  of
       master  area  windows can be adjusted from zero to an arbitrary number. 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 stderr, 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-p Spawn dmenu(1) for launching other programs.

       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 number of windows in master area.

       Mod1-d Decrease number of windows 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)

ISSUES

       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.

BUGS

       Send all bug reports with a patch to hackers@suckless.org.

                                                     dwm-6.4                                              DWM(1)