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@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +.Dd January 8, 2021 +.Dt DWL 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm dwl +.Nd dwm for Wayland +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl s Ar command +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +is a Wayland compositor based on wlroots. +It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that +.Nm dwm +does for X11. +.Pp +When given the +.Fl s +option, +.Nm +starts a shell process running +.Ar command +when starting. +When stopping, it sends +.Dv SIGTERM +to the child process and waits for it to exit. +.Pp +Users are encouraged to customize +.Nm +by editing the sources, in particular +.Pa config.h . +The default key bindings are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width 20n -offset indent -compact +.It Mod-[1-9] +Show only all windows with a tag. +.It Mod-Ctrl-[1-9] +Show all windows with a tag. +.It Mod-Shift-[1-9] +Move window to a single tag. +.It Mod-Ctrl-Shift-[1-9] +Toggle tag for window. +.It Mod-p +Spawn +.Nm bemenu-run . +.It Mod-Shift-Return +Spawn +.Nm alacritty . +.It Mod-[jk] +Move focus down/up the stack. +.It Mod-[id] +Increase/decrease number of windows in master area. +.It Mod-[hl] +Decrease/increase master area. +.It Mod-Return +Move window on top of stack or switch top of stack with second window. +.It Mod-Tab +Show only all windows with previous tag. +.It Mod-Shift-c +Close window. +.It Mod-t +Switch to tabbed layout. +.It Mod-f +Switch to floating layout. +.It Mod-m +Switch to monocle layout. +.It Mod-Space +Switch to previous layout. +.It Mod-Shift-Space +Toggle floating state of window. +.It Mod-e +Toggle fullscreen state of window. +.It Mod-0 +Show all windows. +.It Mod-Shift-0 +Set all tags for window. +.It Mod-, +Move focus to previous monitor. +.It Mod-. +Move focus to next monitor. +.It Mod-Shift-, +Move window to previous monitor. +.It Mod-Shift-. +Move window to next monitor. +.It Mod-Shift-q +Quit +.Nm . +.El +These might differ depending on your keyboard layout. +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +These environment variables are used by +.Nm : +.Bl -tag -width XDG_RUNTIME_DIR +.It Ev XDG_RUNTIME_DIR +A directory where temporary user files, such as the Wayland socket, +are stored. +.It Ev XDG_CONFIG_DIR +A directory containung configuration of various programs and +libraries, including libxkbcommon. +.It Ev DISPLAY , WAYLAND_DISPLAY , WAYLAND_SOCKET +Tell how to connect to an underlying X11 or Wayland server. +.It Ev WLR_* +Various variables specific to wlroots. +.It Ev XKB_* , XLOCALEDIR , XCOMPOSEFILE +Various variables specific to libxkbcommon. +.It Ev XCURSOR_PATH +List of directories to search for XCursor themes in. +.It Ev HOME +A directory where there are always dear files there for you. +Waiting for you to clean them up. +.El +.Pp +These are set by +.Nm : +.Bl -tag -width WAYLAND_DISPLAY +.It Ev WAYLAND_DISPLAY +Tell how to connect to +.Nm . +.It Ev DISPLAY +If using +.Nm Xwayland , +tell how to connect to the +.Nm Xwayland +server. +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +Start +.Nm +with s6 in the background: +.Dl dwl -s 's6-svscan <&-' +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr alacritty 1 , +.Xr bemenu 1 , +.Xr dwm 1 , +.Xr xkeyboard-config 7 +.Sh CAVEATS +The child process's standard input is connected with a pipe to +.Nm . +If the child process neither reads from the pipe nor closes its +standard input, +.Nm +will freeze after a while due to it blocking when writing to the full +pipe buffer. +.Sh BUGS +All of them. |