.TH AEWL 1 aewl-0.2


.SH NAME
aewl \- a fork of dwm, the dynamic window manager


.SH SYNOPSIS
.B aewl
.RB [ \-v ]


.SH DESCRIPTION
This man page is the one from dwm-3.4 on which aewl is based.
It is partly updated, but not totally.
.P
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiling and
floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically, optimizing the
environment for the application in use and the task performed.
.P
In tiling mode windows are managed in a master and stacking area. The master
area contains the windows which currently need most attention, whereas the
stacking area contains all other windows. In floating mode windows can be
resized and moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed floating,
regardless of the mode applied.
.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
dwm contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the mode,
the title of the focused window, and the text read from standard input. 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 standard output, then exits.


.SH USAGE

.SS Standard input
.TP
Standard input is read and displayed in the status text area.

.SS Keyboard commands
.TP
.B Mod1-Shift-Return
Start a terminal emulator.
.TP
.B Mod1-Tab
Focus next window.
.TP
.BR Mod1-F1 " / " Mod1-F2
Change view (tagged/untagged).
.TP
.B Mod1-F3
Move current window to other view.
.TP
.B Mod1-asciicircum
Start
.BR dmenu (1)
.TP
.B Mod1-1
Move current window to/from master area (tiling mode), toggle maximization current window (floating mode).
.TP
.B Mod1-2
Close focused window.
.TP
.BR Mod1-plus " or " Mod1-minus
Increase/decrease the number of windows in the master area (tiling mode only).
.TP
.B Mod1-space
Toggle between tiling and max mode.
.TP
.B Mod1-Shift-space
Toggle focused window between floating and non-floating state.
.TP
.B Mod1-Shift-q
Quit window manager.

.SS Mouse commands
.TP
.B Mod1-Button1
Move current window while dragging (floating mode only).
.TP
.B Mod1-Button3
Resize current window while dragging (floating mode only).


.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 SEE ALSO
.BR dmenu (1)


.SH BUGS
The status bar may display
.BR "EOF"
when dwm has been started by an X session manager like
.BR xdm (1),
because those close standard output before executing dwm.
.P
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. As a workaround
you can use JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you
can set the following environment variable (to use the older Motif
backend instead):
.BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit .