dvtm brings the concept of tiling window management, popularized by X11-window managers like dwm, to the console. As a console window manager, it tries to make it easy to work with multiple console based programs like vim, mutt, cmus, or irssi. dvtm is intended to be used where X11 isn't available or over SSH. In conjunction with dtach, it can be seen as a lightweight alternative to GNU screen.
| Tags | Terminals Utilities Desktop Environment Window Manager |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT/X |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD OpenBSD NetBSD FreeBSD Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Better content backfill on window resizing. Dynamic color changes depending on the window title. Support for the 8 basic highlighted colors. Rudimentary mouse support. Fibonacci layout. Some cross-platform fixes.


Release Notes: Window content buffering upon resize: dvtm saves the window content upon window shrinkage and restores it once the window gets bigger again. This improves usability quite a bit. Also featured in this release is multiplexing mode, in which keystrokes will be sent to all non-minimized windows.


Release Notes: This release has a compile fix for Mac OS X, optional beep on terminal bell, and better resize/redraw handling.


Release Notes: This is a bugfix release that contains a compile fix for curses libraries that do not provide the set_escdelay function. The home and end keys should now work more reliably.


Release Notes: This release introduces scrollback and 256-color support, fixes some bugs, and contains lots of small code cleanups.
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