DWM Cheatsheet

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Small cheatsheet on most important DWM keybinds. These can vary wildly depending on the patches or configuration you have installed.

Mod

By default DWM uses the Alt key for Mod. Often this is changed to Super or “The Windows Key”

Default Keybinds

  • Mod + p - launch dmenu
  • Mod + Shift + Enter - launch terminal (st by default)
  • Mod + b - toggle bar
  • Mod + j - focus on next window in stack
  • Mod + k - focus on previous window in stack
  • Mod + i - increase number of master windows
  • Mod + d - decrease number of master windows
  • Mod + h - decrease master horizontal size
  • Mod + l - increase master horizontal size
  • Mod + Enter - make current focused window master
  • Mod + Tab - switch to previous focused tag
  • Mod + Shift + c - kill focused window
  • Mod + t - set layout to tiling
  • Mod + f - set layout to floating
  • Mod + m - set layout to maximized
  • Mod + Space - switch to previous selected layout
  • Mod + Shift + Space - toggle floating for focused window
  • Mod + 0 - view all windows on all tags
  • Mod + Shift + 0 - show focused window on every tag
  • Mod + , - switch to next monitor
  • Mod + Shift + , - move focused window to next monitor
  • Mod + . - switch to previous monitor
  • Mod + Shift + . - move focused window to previous monitor
  • Mod + [1-9] - switch to tag 1-9
  • Mod + Shift + [1-9] - move focused window to tag 1-9
  • Mod + Shift + q - exit dwm