man dwm Command

Man page for apt-get dwm Command

Man Page for dwm in Linux

This tutorial shows the man page for man dwm in linux.

Open terminal with 'su' access and type the command as shown below:
man dwm

Result of the Command Execution shown below:

DWM(1)                                                                                                                                                        DWM(1)



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  win 
       dow  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 uxterm(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 h Decrease master area size.

       Mod1 l Increase 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)

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 win 
       dow 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 5.7.2                                                                       DWM(1)

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