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fixed XSync handling and finished man page
author Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de>
date Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:51:44 +0200
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5 .B dwm 5 .B dwm
6 .RB [ \-v ] 6 .RB [ \-v ]
7 .SH DESCRIPTION 7 .SH DESCRIPTION
8 .SS Overview 8 .SS Overview
9 .B dwm 9 .B dwm
10 is a dynamic window manager for X11. 10 is a dynamic window manager for X11. It consists of a small status bar at the
11 top of the screen and arranges windows in either a tiled or floating mode.
12 .P
13 If
14 .B dwm
15 is in tiled mode, it consists of two columns. The left master column
16 contains only one window per time, the right column contains all other windows
17 in a stack. In tiled mode
18 .B dwm
19 .B don't
20 handles incremental resizals, some terminal programs like
21 .B xterm
22 may not work correctly with this in tiled mode.
23 .P
24 If
25 .B dwm
26 is in floating mode, it arranges all windows with the reqyested geometry and
27 allows the user to move or resize them. Some windows, like
28 dialog windows, are treated floating even if
29 .B dwm
30 is in tiled mode. In floating mode
31 .B dwm
32 handles incremental resizals.
33 .P
34 Windows are grouped by tags. You can view all windows with a specific tag per
35 time. However, each window is allowed to contain more than one tag, which
36 allows to make windows visible in all views.
37 .P
38 .B dwm
39 reads from
40 .I stdin
41 to display status text, if written.
42 .P
43 .B dwm
44 draws 1-pixel borders around windows to indicate the focus state and save as
45 much screen real estate as possible. Unfocused windows contain a small bar
46 in front of the window indicating the tags and the window title.
11 .SS Options 47 .SS Options
12 .TP 48 .TP
13 .B \-v 49 .B \-v
14 prints version information to stdout, then exits. 50 prints version information to
15 .SS Status text 51 .I stdout
52 , then exits.
53 .SS Customization
16 .B dwm 54 .B dwm
17 reads from stdin to display status text if provided. 55 is customized through editing its source code. It is assumed that
56 dwm users are high experienced users who know how a window manager works
57 and who are able to patch
58 .B dwm
59 for their needs. This keeps
60 .B dwm
61 fast, secure and simple, because it does not process any input data, except
62 window properties and the status text read from
63 .I stdin .
18 .SS Default Key Bindings 64 .SS Default Key Bindings
19 .TP 16 65 .TP 16
20 .I Key 66 .I Key
21 .I Action 67 .I Action
22 .TP 68 .TP
94 .TP 140 .TP
95 .B Mod1-Button3 141 .B Mod1-Button3
96 Resizes current 142 Resizes current
97 .B window 143 .B window
98 while dragging 144 while dragging
145 .SH BUGS
146 Some terminal programs do not behave correctly in tiled mode, because
147 incremental resizals are ignored to use maximum screen real estate. You can
148 patch the code to fix this.