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 layouts. Choose Apply changes to test the complete layout for 15 seconds, then Keep changes to accept it or Revert to restore the captured layout. Timeout or closing Settings also restores the prior layout. Saved layouts can be reused later; Use at next login installs the selected layout for future X11 sessions after a separate confirmation and administrator authorization.

Monitor cards and the layout preview share the same numbers. To arrange an enabled monitor, choose another monitor in its reference selector and click Left of, Right of, Above, or Below. The preview updates before anything changes on your desktop. Horizontal placements align top edges; vertical placements align left edges. After changing resolution or rotation, choose a placement again to realign the edges. Disabled monitors keep their cards but do not appear in the preview or reference choices.

Automatic layouts provides separate Undocked (built-in only) and Docked profiles, with saved monitor previews and refresh rates. The status line distinguishes matching hardware from the layout actually applied. Choose Edit saved, adjust the draft below, then Save draft as undocked or Save draft as docked and confirm. Saving does not change live screens; use Apply changes and Keep changes to test first. You can prepare the Undocked layout while the dock remains connected. Connect the saved monitors before editing a Docked layout.

This optional feature uses Fedora’s autorandr login and hotplug integration, without administrator approval. Saving Undocked makes it the default fallback. Docked matches the connected monitor identities, not just the connector type. Replaced profiles are backed up in the dwm-titus display-profile-backups configuration directory. Only one Docked slot is managed here; advanced multi-dock profiles remain available through autorandr. These user profiles are separate from the administrator-controlled Use at next login action.

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 layouts live under the dwm-titus XDG config directory. Legacy incomplete layouts 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.

The same section exposes session-wide XKB accessibility shortcuts, sticky keys, slow keys, bounce keys, and mouse keys when xkbset can reach the X11 session. These controls use the same 15-second preview and reset workflow, but are not tied to one physical keyboard. Kept choices are restored at the next login.

The Appearance section also manages notification behavior. Do Not Disturb suppresses low and normal urgency popups without discarding their history; critical notifications remain visible. Choose a four-, six-, or ten-second ordinary popup duration, or reset both choices to Do Not Disturb off and six seconds. These choices persist for future managed Quickshell sessions. Settings keeps them read-only when another notification daemon owns the session D-Bus name.

The System section includes Manage accounts, Change my password, Manage printers, and Manage software sources. Each opens a fixed trusted Fedora tool only after a separate confirmation. Missing tools and stale provider status are explained beside the affected control. Reported accounts and enabled or disabled software sources are read-only lists here. The tool owns its own authorization and changes; an accepted launch is not proof that work inside it completed. Enter passwords only in the configured terminal’s passwd prompt. Cancel returns keyboard focus to the originating control. Closing Settings does not close a launched tool or undo its changes.

For timezone and system locale, select Load choices, filter the reported catalog, and select with click or Enter. Review change reads a fresh preview; it does not apply the selection. Network time offers fixed enable/disable previews. Confirm the complete current and target values with Apply change. A sent change cannot be canceled; Cancel only dismisses the preview. Uncertain results require fresh status and a new confirmation, never automatic retry or rollback. Locale changes apply to new sessions without automatic logout. NTP synchronization is explicitly labeled as last-read status. The local date and time readout shares the panel’s minute-level clock. A newly reported timezone refreshes both displays without restarting the shell. This does not add background timezone discovery while System Settings is closed.

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.

The Use at next login display action 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, backs up the previous managed next-login fragment, and offers Restore login backup. It does not capture the live XRandR layout. Later phases add connectivity, audio, power, defaults, personalization, and system-management operations.