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Put floating windows on random starting positions
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:42:20 +0200
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1 .TH AEWL 1 aewl-0.2
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4 .SH NAME
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5 aewl \- a fork of dwm, the dynamic window manager
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8 .SH SYNOPSIS
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9 .B aewl
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10 .RB [ \-v ]
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13 .SH DESCRIPTION
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14 This man page is the one from dwm-3.4 on which aewl is based.
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15 It is partly updated, but not totally.
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16 .P
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17 dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiling and
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18 floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically, optimizing the
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19 environment for the application in use and the task performed.
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20 .P
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21 In tiling mode windows are managed in a master and stacking area. The master
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22 area contains the windows which currently need most attention, whereas the
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23 stacking area contains all other windows. In floating mode windows can be
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24 resized and moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed floating,
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25 regardless of the mode applied.
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26 .P
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27 Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple
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28 tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with these tags.
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29 .P
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30 dwm contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the mode,
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31 the title of the focused window, and the text read from standard input. The
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32 selected tags are indicated with a different color. The tags of the focused
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33 window are indicated with a filled square in the top left corner. The tags
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34 which are applied to one or more windows are indicated with an empty square in
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35 the top left corner.
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36 .P
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37 dwm draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state.
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40 .SH OPTIONS
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41 .TP
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42 .B \-v
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43 prints version information to standard output, then exits.
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46 .SH USAGE
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48 .SS Standard input
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49 .TP
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50 Standard input is read and displayed in the status text area.
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52 .SS Keyboard commands
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53 .TP
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54 .B Mod1-Shift-Return
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55 Start a terminal emulator.
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56 .TP
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57 .B Mod1-Tab
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58 Focus next window.
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59 .TP
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60 .BR Mod1-F1 " / " Mod1-F2
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61 Change view (tagged/untagged).
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62 .TP
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63 .B Mod1-F3
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64 Move current window to other view.
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65 .TP
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66 .B Mod1-asciicircum
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67 Start
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68 .BR dmenu (1)
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69 .TP
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70 .B Mod1-1
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71 Move current window to/from master area (tiling mode), toggle maximization current window (floating mode).
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72 .TP
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73 .B Mod1-2
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74 Close focused window.
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75 .TP
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76 .BR Mod1-plus " or " Mod1-minus
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77 Increase/decrease the number of windows in the master area (tiling mode only).
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79 .B Mod1-space
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80 Toggle between tiling and max mode.
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81 .TP
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82 .B Mod1-Shift-space
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83 Toggle focused window between floating and non-floating state.
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85 .B Mod1-Shift-q
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86 Quit window manager.
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88 .SS Mouse commands
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91 Move current window while dragging (floating mode only).
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93 .B Mod1-Button3
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94 Resize current window while dragging (floating mode only).
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97 .SH CUSTOMIZATION
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98 dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source
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99 code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
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102 .SH SEE ALSO
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103 .BR dmenu (1)
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106 .SH BUGS
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107 The status bar may display
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108 .BR "EOF"
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109 when dwm has been started by an X session manager like
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110 .BR xdm (1),
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111 because those close standard output before executing dwm.
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113 Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows
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114 only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early
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115 JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As a workaround
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116 you can use JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you
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117 can set the following environment variable (to use the older Motif
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118 backend instead):
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119 .BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit .