For example + 6 will take me to the 6th tag. These numbers are tags (workspaces) that we can switch between. Notice that the top bar has a few numbers, starting from 1 to 9. Here is as example of two windows selected as master: + i is used to promote the master and + d is used for demoting it. If you want more than one master then you can even promote and demote master panes. The one I like to use is centeredmaster, which keeps the master terminal in the center of the screen. You can choose between a lot of different layouts from dwm patches. Dwm makes sure that the most attention goes to the recently opened program. A stack is a LIFO (last in first out) data structure. If you keep on opening terminals up then you will notice that the focus shifts to the newest terminal in the stack. If it doesn't work then checkout the changing keybindings section where I talk about remapping the key bindings and customizing which terminal should open up. To spin up a terminal in dwm, just press the following: + +. The screen is going to have your wallpaper on it by default. Once you do, you will see a blank screen with numbers on top. Now that you are all set, logout and log back in again. Additional layouts and functionalities can be added by patching, as is the suckless anti-bloat philosophy.Įxecute the following commands to get started with dwm:Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode It is extremely fast and packed with bare essentials. It uses a stack based system for managing windows, where the top of the stack is the master and the other windows are slaves.
Customization requires editing the source directly and building it from scratch (which is easier than it looks, up ahead).ĭwm is only a single binary, and its source code is intended to never exceed 2000 SLOC.Ĭustomization is done by editing the source code, which is very easy to understand. It is just a source file which you have to compile manually to get started.
Dwm, like other suckless tools, is meant for the elitist, and suckless makes sure of that.
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