dwm - dynamic window manager

dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. This is an fork and adapted version which contains my keybindings and settings.

Contact: revol-xut@protonmail.com

Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running dwm

Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:

exec dwm

In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:

DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm

(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)

In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something like this in your .xinitrc:

while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
do
    sleep 1
done &
exec dwm

Configuration

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.

Keybindings

Commandkeys: Windows

Workspaces

• 0-9: Workspaces
• Tab or backslash: last workspace
• g: iterating through workspaces right -> left
• ;: iterating through workspaces left -> right

Layouts

• t: tile layout
• Shift + t: bstack
• y: spiral
• Shift + y: dwindle
• u: deck
• Shift + u: monocle
• i: centermaster
• Shift + u: centeredfloatingmaster
• o: Horizontal
• Shift: Vertical

Window

• q: kill window
• s: toggle sticky
• f: fullscrean
• h: increase window size to left
• l: increse window sie to right
• Enter: summon terminal
• Shift + Enter: floating terminal

Window Movement

• Shift + f: free float
• Shift + g: move current window to left workspace
• Shift + ;: move current window to right workspace
• Space: switch top most windows on stack

Gaps

• a: toggle gaps
• Shift + a: default gaps
• z: increase gaps
• x: decrease gaps

Statusbar

• b: toggle statusbar