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.TH DWM 1 dwm\-VERSION
.SH NAME
dwm \- dynamic window manager (Luke Smith <https://lukesmith.xyz>'s build)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dwm
.RB [ \-v ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X.
.P
dwm "orders" windows based on recency and primacy, while dwm layouts may
change, the most recent "master" window is shown in the most prominent
position. There are bindings for cycling through and promoting windows to the
master position.
.P
Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple
tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with these tags.
.P
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.
.P
dwm draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-v
prints version information to stderr, then exits.
.SH USAGE
.SS Status bar
.TP
.B X root window name
is read and displayed in the status text area. It can be set with the
.BR xsetroot (1)
command.
.TP
.B Left click
click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click on the layout
label toggles between tiled and floating layout.
.TP
.B Right click
click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag to/from the view.
.TP
.B Super\-Left click
click on a tag label applies that tag to the focused window.
.TP
.B Super\-Right click
click on a tag label adds/removes that tag to/from the focused window.
.SS Keyboard commands
.TP
.B Super\-Return
Start terminal,
.BR st(1).
.TP
.B Super\-d
Spawn
.BR dmenu(1)
for launching other programs.
.TP
.B Super\-grave
Spawn
.BR dmenuunicode(1)
for selecting emoji.
.TP
.B Super\-minus/plus, Super\-Shift\-minus/plus
Decrease/increase volume by 5 and 15 respectively.
.TP
.B Super\-b
Toggles bar on and off.
.TP
.B Super\-q
Close focused window.
.TP
.B Super\-t/T
Sets tiled/bstack layouts.
.TP
.B Super\-f
Toggle fullscreen window.
.TP
.B Super\-F
Toggle floating layout.
.TP
.B Super\-y/Y
Sets Fibonacci spiral/dwinde layouts.
.TP
.B Super\-u/U
Sets centered master layout.
.TP
.B Super\-i/I
Sets centered master or floating master layouts.
.TP
.B Super\-space
Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area.
.TP
.B Super\-j/k
Focus next/previous window.
.TP
.B Super\-Shift\-j/k
Move selected window down/up in stack.
.TP
.B Super\-o/O
Increase/decrease number of windows in master area.
.TP
.B Super\-l
Increase master area size.
.TP
.B Super\-h
Decrease master area size.
.TP
.B Super\-Shift\-space
Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state.
.TP
.B Super\-Tab
Toggles to the previously selected tags.
.TP
.B Super\-g
Moves to the previous tag.
.TP
.B Super\-Shift\-g
Moves selected window to the previous tag.
.TP
.B Super\-;
Moves to the next tag.
.TP
.B Super\-Shift\-;
Moves selected window to the next tag.
.TP
.B Super\-PageUp
Moves to the previous tag.
.TP
.B Super\-Shift\-PageUp
Moves selected window to the previous tag.
.TP
.B Super\-Pagedown
Moves to the next tag.
.TP
.B Super\-Shift\-PageDown
Moves selected window to the next tag.
.TP
.B Super\-a
Toggle gaps.
.TP
.B Super\-z
Increase gaps between windows.
.TP
.B Super\-x
Decrease gaps between windows.
.TP
.B Super\-Shift\-[1..n]
Apply nth tag to focused window.
.TP
.B Super\-Shift\-0
Apply all tags to focused window.
.TP
.B Super\-Control\-Shift\-[1..n]
Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window.
.TP
.B Super\-[1..n]
View all windows with nth tag.
.TP
.B Super\-0
View all windows with any tag.
.TP
.B Super\-Control\-[1..n]
Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view.
.TP
.B Super\-Shift\-q
Quit dwm.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Control\-Shift\-q
Menu to refresh/quit/reboot/shutdown.
.SS Mouse commands
.TP
.B Super\-Left click
Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
.TP
.B Super\-Middle click
Toggles focused window between floating and tiled state.
.TP
.B Super\-Right click
Resize focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
.SH CUSTOMIZATION
dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source
code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
.SH SIGNALS
.TP
.B SIGHUP - 1
Restart the dwm process.
.TP
.B SIGTERM - 15
Cleanly terminate the dwm process.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR dmenu (1),
.BR st (1)
.SH 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
.BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
(to use the older Motif backend instead) or running
.B xprop -root -f _NET_WM_NAME 32a -set _NET_WM_NAME LG3D
or
.B 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
.BR _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 .
.SH BUGS
Send all bug reports with a patch to hackers@suckless.org.