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.
125 Focus window to the left.
128 Focus window to the right.
131 Focus the [0..9]-th window.
134 Focus previously selected window.
137 Toggle minimization of current window.
140 Maximize current window (change to fullscreen layout).
146 .It Ic Shift-PageDown
151 Toggle between defined layouts (affects all windows).
154 Zooms/cycles current window to/from master area.
157 Change to vertical stack tiling layout.
160 Change to bottom stack tiling layout.
163 Change to grid layout.
166 Show/hide the status bar.
169 Toggle position of the status bar between top and bottom.
177 Toggle keyboard multiplexing mode, if activated keypresses are sent to all
181 Toggle dvtm mouse grabbing.
184 Enter copy mode (see section below for further information).
187 Enter copy mode and start searching forward (assumes a vi-like editor).
190 Paste last copied text from copy mode at current cursor position.
193 Show this manual page.
200 View all windows with n-th tag.
203 View all windows with any tag.
206 Toggles to the previously selected tags.
209 Add/remove all windows with nth tag to/from the view.
212 Apply nth tag to focused window.
215 Add/remove nth tag to/from focused window.
224 By default dvtm captures mouse events to provide the actions listed below.
225 Unfortunately this interferes with the standard X copy and paste mechanism.
226 To work around this you need to hold down
228 while selecting or pasting text.
229 Alternatively you can disable mouse support at compile time, start dvtm with the
231 flag or toggle mouse support during runtime with
238 .It Ic Button1 double click
239 Focus window and toggle maximization.
242 Zoom/cycle current window to/from master area.
245 Toggle minimization of current window.
251 Copy mode gives easy access to past output by piping it to
254 What the editor writes will be stored in an internal register and can be pasted
255 into other clients (via
259 .Sh ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
263 Each process spawned by dvtm will have this variable set to the dvtm version
266 .It Ev DVTM_WINDOW_ID
267 Each process also has access to its constant and unique window id.
270 If the -c command line argument was specified upon dvtm startup, this variable
271 will be set to the file name of the named pipe. Thus allowing the process
272 to send commands back to dvtm.
275 By default dvtm uses its own terminfo file and therefore sets
277 within the client windows. This can be overridden by setting the
279 environment variable to a valid terminal name before launching dvtm.
282 When entering the copymode dvtm pipes the whole scroll back buffer to
284 which opens the content in
300 script as an example of how to display text in the status bar.
306 is customized by creating a custom
308 and (re)compiling the source code.
309 This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
321 .An Marc André Tanner Aq Mt mat at brain-dump.org