dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager

dvtm brings dwm and it's concept of tiling window management to the console. See http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm for the latest version.

Micha's Mods

Swap adjacent windows (see config.h swapprev and swapnext).
See the micha branch for Micha's config.h settings.

Requirements

In order to build dvtm you will need:

libncurses or libncursesw for wide character support

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dvtm is installed into the /usr/local namespace and links against libncursesw by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dvtm (if necessary as root).

make && make install

Running dvtm

Just run dvtm from the console, redirect stderr to a file (just in case something goes wrong you will see it there).

dvtm 2> log

If you want to display a one line status bar you can create a named pipe and pass it's name to dvtm via it's -s command line option. Make sure that the pipe remains open until dvtm is closed, see the included dvtm-status script as an example.

Configuration