1 .Dd $Mdocdate: December 27 2016 $
6 .Nd dynamic virtual terminal manager
18 .Op Fl s Ar status-fifo
26 is a dynamic tiling window manager for the console.
28 As a console window manager it tries to make it easy to work with multiple
29 console based applications.
33 Print version information to standard output and exit.
36 Toggle default mouse grabbing upon startup. Use this to allow normal mouse operation
40 Set command modifier at runtime.
43 Set the delay ncurses waits before deciding if a character that might be
44 part of an escape sequence is actually part of an escape sequence.
47 Set the scrollback history buffer size at runtime.
52 and don't change it to the one of the currently focused window.
54 .It Fl s Ar status-fifo
55 Open or create the named pipe
57 read its content and display it in the statusbar. See the
59 script for an usage example.
62 Open or create the named pipe
64 and look for commands to execute which were defined in
70 (s), each in a separate window.
78 Each keybinding begins with
90 Create a new shell window.
93 Create a new shell window using the current working directory of the focused window.
99 Increases the master area width about 5% (all except grid and
103 Decreases the master area width about 5% (all except grid and
107 Increase number of windows displayed in the master area.
110 Decrease number of windows displayed in the master area.
116 Focus previous window.
119 Focus next non minimized window.
122 Focus previous non minimized window.
125 Focus the [0..9]-th window.
128 Focus previously selected window.
131 Toggle minimization of current window.
134 Maximize current window (change to fullscreen layout).
140 .It Ic Shift-PageDown
145 Toggle between defined layouts (affects all windows).
148 Zooms/cycles current window to/from master area.
151 Change to vertical stack tiling layout.
154 Change to bottom stack tiling layout.
157 Change to grid layout.
160 Show/hide the status bar.
163 Toggle position of the status bar between top and bottom.
171 Toggle keyboard multiplexing mode, if activated keypresses are sent to all
175 Toggle dvtm mouse grabbing.
178 Enter copy mode (see section below for further information).
181 Enter copy mode and start searching forward (assumes a vi-like editor).
184 Paste last copied text from copy mode at current cursor position.
187 Show this manual page.
194 View all windows with n-th tag.
197 View all windows with any tag.
200 Toggles to the previously selected tags.
203 Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view.
206 Apply nth tag to focused window.
209 Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window.
218 By default dvtm captures mouse events to provide the actions listed below.
219 Unfortunately this interferes with the standard X copy and paste mechanism.
220 To work around this you need to hold down
222 while selecting or pasting text.
223 Alternatively you can disable mouse support at compile time, start dvtm with the
225 flag or toggle mouse support during runtime with
232 .It Ic Button1 double click
233 Focus window and toggle maximization.
236 Zoom/cycle current window to/from master area.
239 Toggle minimization of current window.
245 Copy mode gives easy access to past output by piping it to an editor. What
246 ever the editor prints to stdout upon exiting will be stored in an internal
247 register and can be pasted into other clients (via
252 .Sh ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
256 Each process spawned by dvtm will have this variable set to the dvtm version
259 .It Ev DVTM_WINDOW_ID
260 Each process also has access to its constant and unique window id.
263 If the -c command line argument was specified upon dvtm startup, this variable
264 will be set to the file name of the named pipe. Thus allowing the process
265 to send commands back to dvtm.
268 By default dvtm uses its own terminfo file and therefore sets
270 within the client windows. This can be overridden by setting the
272 environment variable to a valid terminal name before launching dvtm.
275 When entering the copymode dvtm pipes the whole scroll back buffer to
277 which is launched with
279 (indicating to read from stdin) as its only argument.
284 is checked, if this is also not set the default value specified in
294 script as an example of how to display text in the status bar.
300 is customized by creating a custom
302 and (re)compiling the source code.
303 This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
315 .An Marc André Tanner Aq Mt mat at brain-dump.org