1 .TH DVTM 1 dvtm\-VERSION
4 dvtm \- dynamic virtual terminal manager
21 .RI [ command \ ... "" ]
23 dvtm is a dynamic tiling window manager for the console.
24 As a console window manager it tries to make it easy to work with multiple
25 console based applications.
29 Print version information to standard output and exit.
32 Toggle default mouse grabbing upon startup. Use this to allow normal mouse operation
36 Set command modifier at runtime.
39 Set the delay ncurses waits before deciding if a character that might be
40 part of an escape sequence is actually part of an escape sequence.
43 Set the scrollback history buffer size at runtime.
48 and don't change it to the one of the currently focused window.
51 Open or create the named pipe
53 read its content and display it in the statusbar. See the
55 script for an usage example.
58 Open or create the named pipe
60 and look for commands to execute which were defined in
66 each in a separate window.
71 Each keybinding begins with Mod which defaults to
80 Create a new shell window.
86 Increases the master area width about 5% (all except grid and
90 Decreases the master area width about 5% (all except grid and
97 Focus previous window.
105 Focus previously selected window.
108 Toggle minimization of current window.
111 Focus next non minimized window.
114 Focus previous non minimized window.
117 Maximize current window (change to fullscreen layout).
130 Toggle between defined layouts (affects all windows).
133 Zooms/cycles current window to/from master area.
136 Change to vertical stack tiling layout.
139 Change to bottom stack tiling layout.
142 Change to grid layout.
145 Show/hide the status bar.
153 Toggle keyboard multiplexing mode, if activated keypresses are sent to all
157 Toggle bell (off by default).
160 Toggle dvtm mouse grabbing.
163 Enter copy mode (see section below for further information).
166 Enter copy mode and start searching forward (assumes a vi-like editor).
169 Paste last copied text from copy mode at current cursor position.
172 Show this manual page.
180 View all windows with nth tag.
183 View all windows with any tag.
186 Toggles to the previously selected tags.
189 Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view.
192 Apply nth tag to focused window.
195 Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window.
202 By default dvtm captures mouse events to provide the actions listed below.
203 Unfortunately this interferes with the standard X copy and paste mechanism.
204 To work around this you need to hold down
206 while selecting or pasting text.
207 Alternatively you can disable mouse support at compile time, start dvtm with the
209 flag or toggle mouse support during runtime with
215 .B Button1 double click
216 Focus window and toggle maximization.
219 Zoom/cycle current window to/from master area.
222 Toggle minimization of current window.
224 Copy mode gives easy access to past output by piping it to an editor. What
225 ever the editor prints to stdout upon exiting will be stored in an internal
226 register and can be pasted into other clients (via
229 .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
232 Each process spawned by dvtm will have this variable set to the dvtm version
236 Each process also has access to its constant and unique window id.
239 If the -c command line argument was specified upon dvtm startup, this variable
240 will be set to the file name of the named pipe. Thus allowing the process
241 to send commands back to dvtm.
244 By default dvtm uses its own terminfo file and therefore sets
246 within the client windows. This can be overridden by setting the
248 environment variable to a valid terminal name before launching dvtm.
251 When entering the copymode dvtm pipes the whole scroll back buffer to
253 which is launched with
255 (indicating to read from stdin) as its only argument.
260 is checked, if this is also not set the default value specified in
266 script as an example of how to display text in the
269 dvtm is customized by creating a custom
271 and (re)compiling the source code.
272 This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
274 dvtm is written by Marc André Tanner <mat at brain-dump.org>