The Window Manager Report - Notes: dvtm 0.4.1 (20080816)

Disclaimer: these notes are guaranteed to be incomplete, and they are probably also wrong. Use them at your own risk.

• This is a TEXT-based WM, it works on the console or in an X-Terminal
• It brings the behaviour of a tiling WM to text-based consoles
• The default "Mod key" as they call it is Ctrl-g - I don't think this is the proper use of the term to have it be a combo ...
• This gives us a emacs- and screen-like behaviour, with similar key-combos
• Ctrl-g-c starts a new terminal (similar to screen's Ctrl-a-c)
• You can reconfigure the Mod key at the command line when you start dvtm (I haven't tried this)
• default behaviour is to split the existing space, then stack further terms on the right side, but you can cycle through the layouts with Mod-Space (Ctrl-g-Space)
• Oddly, dvtm uses vi-like bindings to switch terminals - Mod-j and Mod-k.
• I've had problems previously I think with an older version of dvtm with terminal colour and movement codes (from my Bashprompt HOWTO), but this version seems to have full support