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1 Launching
2 ---------
3 To launch dwm, ideally you should setup a `~/.xinitrc` with at least `ex…
4 dwm`.
5
6 Introduction
7 ------------
8 Using dwm can be done in pure keyboard control or through some extra mou…
9 handling. See the [config.def.h](//git.suckless.org/dwm/plain/config.def…
10 what are the default bindings. They are used in this tutorial.
11
12 [Shift]+[Alt]+[Enter] - launch terminal
13 [Alt]+[p] - dmenu for running programs like the x-www-browser
14
15 By default there are 9 tags.
16
17 Window model
18 ------------
19 Launch a few terminals with `[Shift]+[Alt]+[Enter]` and dwm will _tile_ …
20 windows between the **master** and **stack**. A new terminal appears on …
21 **master** window. Existing windows are pushed upon a **stack** to the r…
22 the screen. `[Alt]+[Enter]` toggles windows between master and stack.
23
24 +------+----------------------------------+--------+
25 | tags | title | status |
26 +------+---------------------+------------+--------+
27 | | |
28 | | |
29 | | |
30 | | |
31 | master | stack |
32 | | |
33 | | |
34 | | |
35 | | |
36 +----------------------------+---------------------+
37
38 Moving Around
39 -------------
40 To **move to another terminal**, press `[Alt]+[j]` or `[Alt]+[k]`.
41
42 To **move a terminal to another _tag_**, hover to the terminal and press
43 `[Shift]+[Alt]+[2]`. Note! If you are a frequent user of the text editor…
44 the key sequence [Shift]+[Alt]+[4] will stomp on nano's softwrap M-$. To…
45 around this you can unbind nano's M-$ in .nanorc thus:
46
47 unbind M-$ all
48
49 and rebind it to a new sequence thus (here bind it to 'Meta Key' + ';'):
50
51 bind M-; softwrap all
52
53 There are several other nano key sequences that dwm will stomp on - use …
54
55 To **focus on another _tag_**, press `[Alt]+[tag number]`.
56
57 To **change the amount of windows in the master area**, press `[Alt]+[d]…
58
59 To **toggle a window between the master and stack area**, press `[Alt]+[…
60
61 As stated in the dwm manpage, you can click tags with the left mouse but…
62 into your current focus.
63
64 To **kill a window**, press `[Shift]+[Alt]+[c]`.
65
66 Layouts
67 -------
68 By default dwm is in **tiled** layout mode. Ensure it is tiled mode with:
69
70 [Alt]+[t]
71
72 You should also notice the `[]=` symbol between the tag numbers and the …
73 bar.
74
75 dwm has two further layout modes, **floating** `><>` `[Alt]+[f]` and
76 **monocle** `[M]` `[Alt]+[m]`. Monocle is good for ensuring a window is …
77 maximized and focused. This is useful in web kiosk environments and watc…
78 flash videos. Further layout modes can be included through
79 [patches](//dwm.suckless.org/patches/).
80
81 Floating
82 --------
83 Floating layout will be familiar to Windows users. Use `[Alt]+[right mou…
84 button]` to resize the floating window and `[Alt]+[left mouse button]` t…
85 it around. This can also be used to raise a floating window.
86
87 There are several ways to get specific windows into being managed as a f…
88 window, despite the tiled layout being activated. First there is
89 `[Alt]+[Shift]+[space]`, which will toggle floating mode on the active w…
90 Second method is to simply resize the window using `[Alt]+[right mouse b…
91 The last method is to `[Alt]+[middle mouse button]` onto the window, to …
92 it in being floating. These floating windows then can be used to force c…
93 window sizes, when some application requires this for aesthetics or simp…
94 being usable.
95
96 If you want to set some type of window to be always floating, look at the
97 [config.def.h](//git.suckless.org/dwm/plain/config.def.h) and the `rules`
98 array, where the last but one element defines this behaviour.
99
100 Quitting
101 --------
102 To quit dwm cleanly:
103
104 [Shift]+[Alt]+[q]
105
106 Status
107 ------
108 By default dwm is showing `dwm-X.X` in its statusbar. This text can be c…
109 by setting the `WM_NAME` property of the root window.
110
111 Using the tools of X.org, this can be set using:
112
113 % xsetroot -name "Some Text"
114
115 or
116
117 % xprop -root -set WM_NAME "Some Text"
118
119 There are various tools and methods to populate this text with useful
120 information from your system or services running on your system. A bareb…
121 doing this in C is [dwmstatus](../status_monitor/). See the
122 [xinitrc](xinitrc.example) example for how to do it using a script.
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