Dwm default keys cheatsheet 1.5 KB

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  1. Basic
  2. =====
  3. [Shift]+[Mod]+[Enter] - launch terminal.
  4. [Mod]+[b] - show/hide bar.
  5. [Mod]+[p] - dmenu for running programs like the x-www-browser.
  6. [Mod]+[Enter] - push acive window from stack to master, or pulls last used window from stack onto master.
  7. [Mod] + [j / k] - focus on next/previous window in current tag.
  8. [Mod] + [h / l] - increases / decreases master size.
  9. Navigation
  10. ==========
  11. [Mod]+[2] - moves your focus to tag 2.
  12. [Shift]+[Mod]+[2] - move active window to the 2 tag.
  13. [Mod] + [i / d] - increases / decreases number of windows on master
  14. [Mod] + [, / .] - move focus between screens (multi monitor setup)
  15. [Shift]+[Mod]+[, / .] - move active window to different screen.
  16. [Mod]+[0] - view all windows on screen.
  17. [Shift]+[Mod]+[0] - make focused window appear on all tags.
  18. [Shift]+[Mod]+[c] - kill active window.
  19. [Shift]+[Mod]+[q] - quit dwm cleanly.
  20. Layout
  21. ======
  22. [Mod]+[t] - tiled mode. []=
  23. [Mod]+[f] - floating mode. ><>
  24. [Mod]+[m] - monocle mode. [M] (single window fullscreen)
  25. Floating
  26. ========
  27. [Mod]+[R M B] - to resize the floating window.
  28. [Mod]+[L M B] - to move the floating window around.
  29. [Mod]+[Space] - toggles to the previous layout mode.
  30. [Mod]+[Shift]+[Space] - to make an individual window float.
  31. [Mod]+[M M B] - to make an individual window un-float.