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Basic
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[Shift]+[Mod]+[Enter] - launch terminal.
[Mod]+[b] - show/hide bar.
[Mod]+[p] - dmenu for running programs like the x-www-browser.
[Mod]+[Enter] - push acive window from stack to master, or pulls last used window from stack onto master.
[Mod] + [j / k] - focus on next/previous window in current tag.
[Mod] + [h / l] - increases / decreases master size.
Navigation
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[Mod]+[2] - moves your focus to tag 2.
[Shift]+[Mod]+[2] - move active window to the 2 tag.
[Mod] + [i / d] - increases / decreases number of windows on master
[Mod] + [, / .] - move focus between screens (multi monitor setup)
[Shift]+[Mod]+[, / .] - move active window to different screen.
[Mod]+[0] - view all windows on screen.
[Shift]+[Mod]+[0] - make focused window appear on all tags.
[Shift]+[Mod]+[c] - kill active window.
[Shift]+[Mod]+[q] - quit dwm cleanly.
Layout
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[Mod]+[t] - tiled mode. []=
[Mod]+[f] - floating mode. ><>
[Mod]+[m] - monocle mode. [M] (single window fullscreen)
Floating
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[Mod]+[R M B] - to resize the floating window.
[Mod]+[L M B] - to move the floating window around.
[Mod]+[Space] - toggles to the previous layout mode.
[Mod]+[Shift]+[Space] - to make an individual window float.
[Mod]+[M M B] - to make an individual window un-float.
@5k3lly
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5k3lly commented Jan 21, 2020

On mine [Mod]+[Space] toggles previous layout mode.

@connormichalec
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On mine [Mod]+[Space] toggles previous layout mode.

Same here

@erlendaakre
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oh, snap. will update that now

@Joilnen
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Joilnen commented Mar 1, 2021

@toast-t-bread
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[Mod]+[Shift]+[Enter] opens a terminal as default

@michjord0001
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[R M B] = Right Mouse Button

@jakub-swiniarski
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[Mod] + [Tab] - switch to previously viewed tag

@Bekon241
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Please add shotrcut for Veritical and Horisontal split in ST - terminal. And roll up/down example when you want look terminal history.

@optik-aper
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@Bekon241 at least history scrollback requires patches and are not default. This is also a list for dwm, not st so it's probably not appropriate here.

@RealYukiSan
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RealYukiSan commented Jun 7, 2024

I saw a Reddit comment mentioning that Ctrl+Shift+PageUp can increase font size, and it works on my dwm setup. However, I couldn't find where this keybinding is defined in my configuration files. Could someone please point me to the correct location?

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