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.
83 Create a new shell window using the current working directory of the focused window.
89 Increases the master area width about 5% (all except grid and
93 Decreases the master area width about 5% (all except grid and
97 Increase number of windows displayed in the master area.
100 Decrease number of windows displayed in the master area.
106 Focus previous window.
109 Focus next non minimized window.
112 Focus previous non minimized window.
120 Focus previously selected window.
123 Toggle minimization of current window.
126 Maximize current window (change to fullscreen layout).
139 Toggle between defined layouts (affects all windows).
142 Zooms/cycles current window to/from master area.
145 Change to vertical stack tiling layout.
148 Change to bottom stack tiling layout.
151 Change to grid layout.
154 Show/hide the status bar.
157 Toggle position of the status bar between top and bottom.
165 Toggle keyboard multiplexing mode, if activated keypresses are sent to all
169 Toggle dvtm mouse grabbing.
172 Enter copy mode (see section below for further information).
175 Enter copy mode and start searching forward (assumes a vi-like editor).
178 Paste last copied text from copy mode at current cursor position.
181 Show this manual page.
189 View all windows with nth tag.
192 View all windows with any tag.
195 Toggles to the previously selected tags.
198 Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view.
201 Apply nth tag to focused window.
204 Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window.
211 By default dvtm captures mouse events to provide the actions listed below.
212 Unfortunately this interferes with the standard X copy and paste mechanism.
213 To work around this you need to hold down
215 while selecting or pasting text.
216 Alternatively you can disable mouse support at compile time, start dvtm with the
218 flag or toggle mouse support during runtime with
224 .B Button1 double click
225 Focus window and toggle maximization.
228 Zoom/cycle current window to/from master area.
231 Toggle minimization of current window.
233 Copy mode gives easy access to past output by piping it to an editor. What
234 ever the editor prints to stdout upon exiting will be stored in an internal
235 register and can be pasted into other clients (via
238 .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
241 Each process spawned by dvtm will have this variable set to the dvtm version
245 Each process also has access to its constant and unique window id.
248 If the -c command line argument was specified upon dvtm startup, this variable
249 will be set to the file name of the named pipe. Thus allowing the process
250 to send commands back to dvtm.
253 By default dvtm uses its own terminfo file and therefore sets
255 within the client windows. This can be overridden by setting the
257 environment variable to a valid terminal name before launching dvtm.
260 When entering the copymode dvtm pipes the whole scroll back buffer to
262 which is launched with
264 (indicating to read from stdin) as its only argument.
269 is checked, if this is also not set the default value specified in
275 script as an example of how to display text in the
278 dvtm is customized by creating a custom
280 and (re)compiling the source code.
281 This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
283 dvtm is written by Marc André Tanner <mat at brain-dump.org>