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DMENU(1)						      General Commands Manual							  DMENU(1)

NAME
dmenu - dynamic menu SYNOPSIS
dmenu [-b] [-i] [-l lines] [-m monitor] [-p prompt] [-fn font] [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] [-v] dmenu_run ... dmenu_path DESCRIPTION
dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm(1). It manages huge numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently. dmenu reads a list of newline-separated items from standard input and creates a menu. When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Return, their choice is printed to standard output and dmenu terminates. dmenu_run is a dmenu script used by dwm which lists programs in the user's PATH and executes the selected item. dmenu_path is a program used by dmenu_run to find and cache a list of executables. OPTIONS
-b dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen. -i dmenu matches menu items case insensitively. -l lines dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines. -m monitor dmenu appears on the given Xinerama screen. -p prompt defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field. -fn font defines the font or font set used. -nb color defines the normal background color. #RGB, #RRGGBB, and color names are supported. -nf color defines the normal foreground color. -sb color defines the selected background color. -sf color defines the selected foreground color. -v prints version information to standard output, then exits. USAGE
dmenu is completely controlled by the keyboard. Besides standard Unix line editing and item selection (Up/Down/Left/Right, PageUp/Page- Down, Home/End), the following keys are recognized: Tab (Control-i) Copy the selected item to the input field. Return (Control-j) Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to standard output and exits, returning success. Shift-Return (Control-Shift-j) Confirm input. Prints the input text to standard output and exits, returning success. Escape (Control-c) Exit without selecting an item, returning failure. Control-y Paste the current X selection into the input field. SEE ALSO
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DWM(1)							      General Commands Manual							    DWM(1)

NAME
dwm - dynamic window manager SYNOPSIS
dwm [-v] DESCRIPTION
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed. In tiled layouts windows are managed in a master and stacking area. The master area contains the window which currently needs most atten- tion, whereas the stacking area contains all other windows. In monocle layout all windows are maximised to the screen size. In floating layout windows can be resized and moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed floating, regardless of the layout applied. Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows with these tags. Each screen contains a small status bar which displays all available tags, the layout, the title of the focused window, and the text read from the root window name property, if the screen is focused. A floating window is indicated with an empty square and a maximised floating window is indicated with a filled square before the windows title. 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. dwm draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state. OPTIONS
-v prints version information to standard output, then exits. USAGE
Status bar X root window name is read and displayed in the status text area. It can be set with the xsetroot(1) command. Button1 click on a tag label to display all windows with that tag, click on the layout label toggles between tiled and floating layout. Button3 click on a tag label adds/removes all windows with that tag to/from the view. Mod1-Button1 click on a tag label applies that tag to the focused window. Mod1-Button3 click on a tag label adds/removes that tag to/from the focused window. Keyboard commands Mod1-Shift-Return Start uxterm(1). Mod1-, Focus previous screen, if any. Mod1-. Focus next screen, if any. Mod1-Shift-, Send focused window to previous screen, if any. Mod1-Shift-. Send focused window to next screen, if any. Mod1-b Toggles bar on and off. Mod1-t Sets tiled layout. Mod1-f Sets floating layout. Mod1-m Sets monocle layout. Mod1-space Toggles between current and previous layout. Mod1-j Focus next window. Mod1-k Focus previous window. Mod1-i Increase clients in master area. Mod1-d Decrease clients in master area. Mod1-l Increase master area size. Mod1-h Decrease master area size. Mod1-Return Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area (tiled layouts only). Mod1-Shift-c Close focused window. Mod1-Shift-space Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state. Mod1-Tab Toggles to the previously selected tags. Mod1-Shift-[1..n] Apply nth tag to focused window. Mod1-Shift-0 Apply all tags to focused window. Mod1-Control-Shift-[1..n] Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window. Mod1-[1..n] View all windows with nth tag. Mod1-0 View all windows with any tag. Mod1-Control-[1..n] Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view. Mod1-Shift-q Quit dwm. Mouse commands Mod1-Button1 Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state. Mod1-Button2 Toggles focused window between floating and tiled state. Mod1-Button3 Resize focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state. CUSTOMIZATION
dwm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple. SEE ALSO
dmenu(1) BUGS
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. Possible workarounds are using JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or setting the environment variable AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit (to use the older Motif backend instead) or running xprop -root -f _NET_WM_NAME 32a -set _NET_WM_NAME LG3D or wmname LG3D (to pretend that a non-reparenting window manager is running that the XToolkit/XAWT backend can recognize) or when using OpenJDK setting the environment variable _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENT- ING=1. GTK 2.10.9+ versions contain a broken Save-As file dialog implementation, which requests to reconfigure its window size in an endless loop. However, its window is still respondable during this state, so you can simply ignore the flicker until a new GTK version appears, which will fix this bug, approximately GTK 2.10.12+ versions. dwm-6.0 DWM(1)
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