dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. This repo includes my minimalistically customized dwm configuration.
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
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Clone the repo:
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if necessary as root):
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Run it
- Border width: 2 pixels
- Snap distance: 32 pixels
- Bar: Shown at the top
- Fonts: "monospace:size=12" for windows, "monospace:size=10" for dmenu
- Colors: Dark theme with grays (#222222, #444444, #bbbbbb, #eeeeee) and a highlight color (#ff9c00)
- Tagging: 9 tags ("1" to "9") for organizing windows
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[Shift]+[Mod]+[Enter] - launch terminal.
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[Mod]+[b] - show/hide bar.
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[Mod]+[p] - dmenu for running programs like the x-www-browser.
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[Mod]+[Enter] - push acive window from stack to master, or pulls last used window from stack onto master.
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[Mod] + [j / k] - focus on next/previous window in current tag.
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[Mod] + [h / l] - increases / decreases master size.
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[Mod]+[2] - moves your focus to tag 2.
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[Shift]+[Mod]+[2] - move active window to the 2 tag.
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[Mod] + [i / d] - increases / decreases number of windows on master
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[Mod] + [, / .] - move focus between screens (multi monitor setup)
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[Shift]+[Mod]+[, / .] - move active window to different screen.
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[Mod]+[0] - view all windows on screen.
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[Shift]+[Mod]+[0] - make focused window appear on all tags.
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[Shift]+[Mod]+[c] - kill active window.
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[Shift]+[Mod]+[q] - quit dwm cleanly.
- [Mod]+[t] - tiled mode. []=
- [Mod]+[f] - floating mode. ><>
- [Mod]+[m] - monocle mode. [M] (single window fullscreen)
- [Mod]+[R M B] - to resize the floating window.
- [Mod]+[L M B] - to move the floating window around.
- [Mod]+[Space] - toggles to the previous layout mode.
- [Mod]+[Shift]+[Space] - to make an individual window float.
- [Mod]+[M M B] - to make an individual window un-float.