Settings

The unified Settings application provides one place to inspect desktop capabilities and see which features are available, restricted, or planned.

Open Control Center with Super+F1, then select Settings from the main menu. You can also run:

dwm-settings open

The Displays section discovers connected outputs and their advertised modes, lets you edit resolution, refresh rate, position, rotation, primary state, and output enablement, and manages named profiles. Preview applies the complete layout for 15 seconds. Choose Keep to accept it or Revert to restore the captured layout; timeout or closing Settings also restores the prior layout. The machine-oriented dwm-settings-display helper exposes discover and watch, complete-layout save and preview, named preview-profile, timed keep, revert, and preview-status, plus authorized install-profile and rollback-system actions. Named profiles live under the dwm-titus XDG config directory. Legacy incomplete profiles remain available to dwm-display-profile, but Settings requires them to be resaved as complete layouts before preview or persistent installation.

The Input section shows each XInput device by a stable hardware identity and offers only properties its driver exposes. Pointer acceleration, natural scrolling, tap-to-click, keyboard layout, and modifier options are supported when available. Changes use a timed preview with Keep and Revert. Reset is a separate direct action that restores and persists the driver’s default. Kept values are reapplied idempotently at session startup when the device exposes a stable udev or physical sysfs identity. Devices without one remain session-configurable and report that persistence is unavailable. Unsupported per-device properties remain visible with an explanation.

Type to search section names and descriptions. Use Up and Down to move through the filtered sections, Enter to select one, or Escape to close Settings. The Refresh button runs a new bounded capability snapshot; Settings does not add an idle polling timer.

Command-line IPC actions are also available:

dwm-settings open
dwm-settings refresh
dwm-settings status
dwm-settings close

Existing window-rules.toml files are preserved during upgrades. If your file predates Settings, add this entry inside its rules array:

{ title="dwm settings", isfloating=1, alwaysontop=1 },

Saving the file applies the rule through dwm’s normal hot reload. A customized rule with the same title can be retained instead.

Persistent display installation writes only the managed 90-dwm-titus-display.conf fragment after a separate confirmation and polkit authorization. The installed helper accepts validated display records only, creates a backup, and offers a system rollback. Later phases add connectivity, audio, power, defaults, personalization, and system-management operations.