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1This git repository contains my personal branch of dwm-6.4.
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3The changes made to stock dwm add the following abilities.
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5 - Draw per-client indicators in the tag section of the status bar.
6 <https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/clientindicators/>
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8 - Prompt the user before exiting/restarting dwm.
9 <https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/quitprompt/>
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11 - Assign text names to tags at runtime.
12 <https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/nametag/>
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14 - Layout menu popup presents available layouts.
15 <https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/layoutmenu/>
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17 - Select multiple tags for simultaneous display or window assignment.
18 <https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/combo/>
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20 - Deselect ALL tags, displaying an empty desktop.
21 <https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/emptyview/>
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23 - Center window names in status bar.
24 <https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/centeredwindowname/>
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26 - Active client has wide, red border.
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28 - Customized rules/keybindings in `config.h`.
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30In addition to the usual dependencies and installation tasks for dwm (see the
31original README at the bottom of this file), there are the following new
32dependencies/tasks.
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34 - xmenu from <https://github.com/phillbush/xmenu>. This requires freetype2
35 and imlib2, available in FreeBSD's ports collection under `print/freetype2`
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c56e7560 38 - Customize (if needed) and install `layoutmenu.sh` somewhere in your `$PATH`.
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45Below is the original dwm README file.
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52dwm - dynamic window manager
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54dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
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57Requirements
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59In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
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62Installation
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64Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
65the /usr/local namespace by default).
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67Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
68necessary as root):
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70 make clean install
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73Running dwm
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75Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
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77 exec dwm
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79In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
80the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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82 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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84(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
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86In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
87like this in your .xinitrc:
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89 while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
90 do
91 sleep 1
92 done &
93 exec dwm
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96Configuration
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98The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
99and (re)compiling the source code.