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NAME
dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager
SYNOPSIS
dvtm
[-v]
[-M]
[-m
modifier]
[-d
delay]
[-h
lines]
[-t
title]
[-s
status-fifo]
[-c
cmd-fifo]
[command ...]
DESCRIPTION
dvtm is a dynamic tiling window manager for the console.
As a console window manager it tries to make it easy to work with multiple
console based applications.
OPTIONS
- -v
-
Print version information to standard output and exit.
- -M
-
Toggle default mouse grabbing upon startup. Use this to allow normal mouse operation
under X.
- -m modifier
-
Set command modifier at runtime.
- -d delay
-
Set the delay ncurses waits before deciding if a character that might be
part of an escape sequence is actually part of an escape sequence.
- -h lines
-
Set the scrollback history buffer size at runtime.
- -t title
-
Set a static terminal
title
and don't change it to the one of the currently focused window.
- -s status-fifo
-
Open or create the named pipe
status-fifo
read its content and display it in the statusbar. See the
dvtm-status
script for an usage example.
- -c cmd-fifo
-
Open or create the named pipe
cmd-fifo
and look for commands to execute which were defined in
config.h.
- command ...
-
Execute
command(s),
each in a separate window.
USAGE
Keyboard commands
- Mod
-
Each keybinding begins with Mod which defaults to
^g,
but can be changed in
config.h
or with the
-m
command line option.
- Mod-c
-
Create a new shell window.
- Mod-x
-
Close focused window.
- Mod-l
-
Increases the master area width about 5% (all except grid and
fullscreen layout).
- Mod-h
-
Decreases the master area width about 5% (all except grid and
fullscreen layout).
- Mod-j
-
Focus next window.
- Mod-k
-
Focus previous window.
- Mod-n
-
Focus the
n-th
window.
- Mod-.
-
Toggle minimization of current window.
- Mod-u
-
Focus next non minimized window.
- Mod-i
-
Focus prev non minimized window.
- Mod-m
-
Maximize current window (change to fullscreen layout).
- Mod-PageUp
-
Scroll up.
- Mod-PageDown
-
Scroll down.
- Mod-Space
-
Toggle between defined layouts (affects all windows).
- Mod-Enter
-
Zooms/cycles current window to/from master area.
- Mod-t
-
Change to vertical stack tiling layout.
- Mod-b
-
Change to bottom stack tiling layout.
- Mod-g
-
Change to grid layout.
- Mod-s
-
Show/hide the status bar.
- Mod-r
-
Redraw whole screen.
- Mod-G
-
Escape the next typed key.
- Mod-a
-
Toggle keyboard multiplexing mode, if activated keypresses are sent to all
non minimized windows.
- Mod-X
-
Lock screen.
- Mod-B
-
Toggle bell (off by default).
- Mod-M
-
Toggle dvtm mouse grabbing.
- Mod-v
-
Enter copy mode (see section below for navigation commands).
- Mod-/
-
Enter copy mode and start searching forward.
- Mod-?
-
Enter copy mode and start searching backwards.
- Mod-p
-
Paste last copied text from copy mode at current cursor position.
- Mod-F1
-
Show this manual page.
- Mod-q
-
Quit dvtm.
Mouse commands
- Copy and Paste
-
By default dvtm captures mouse events to provide the actions listed below.
Unfortunately this interferes with the standard X copy and paste mechanism.
To work around this you need to hold down
Shift
while selecting or pasting text.
Alternatively you can disable mouse support at compile time, start dvtm with the
-M
flag or toggle mouse support during runtime with
Mod-M.
- Button1 click
-
Select window.
- Button1 double click
-
Select window and toggle maximization.
- Button2 click
-
Zoom/cycle current window to/from master area.
- Button3 click
-
Toggle minimization of current window.
Copy mode
Copy mode gives easy access to past output.
The commands use vi style keybindings and support number prefixes as
command multipliers.
- Entering
-
Copy mode can be entered with
Mod-v.
- Navigation
-
Once in, navigation works with vi style keybindings
(h,j,k,l,^,$,g,H,M,L,G)
as well as with the
Arrows/Home/End/Page-Down/Page-Up
keys.
- Searching
-
Search forward with
/
and backwards with
?.
Jump forward to next match with
n.
Jump backwards to next match with
N.
- Selecting
-
To start making a selection press
v
(similar to visual mode in vi).
- Copying
-
To copy the current selection use
y.
If you haven't made a selection the current line is copied.
Add a number prefix to copy n lines starting from the current line.
This command leaves the copy mode.
- Pasting
-
The previously copied text can be pasted at the current cursor position
with
Mod-p.
- Leaving
-
Copy mode is automatically left upon copying something. To manually
exit at any time press
ESC
or
q.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
By default dvtm uses its own terminfo file and therefore sets
TERM=dvtm
within the client windows. This can be overridden by setting the
DVTM_TERM
environment variable to a valid terminal name before launching dvtm.
EXAMPLE
See the
dvtm-status
script as an example of how to display text in the
status bar.
CUSTOMIZATION
dvtm is customized by creating a custom
config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.
This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
AUTHOR
dvtm is written by Marc André Tanner <mat at brain-dump.org>
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- OPTIONS
-
- USAGE
-
- Keyboard commands
-
- Mouse commands
-
- Copy mode
-
- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
-
- EXAMPLE
-
- CUSTOMIZATION
-
- AUTHOR
-
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