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1 | dwm - dynamic window manager |
2 | ============================ | |
3 | dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. | |
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5 | ||
6 | Requirements | |
7 | ------------ | |
8 | In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. | |
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10 | ||
11 | Installation | |
12 | ------------ | |
13 | Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into | |
14 | the /usr/local namespace by default). | |
15 | ||
16 | Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if | |
17 | necessary as root): | |
18 | ||
19 | make clean install | |
20 | ||
21 | ||
22 | Running dwm | |
23 | ----------- | |
24 | Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: | |
25 | ||
26 | exec dwm | |
27 | ||
28 | In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that | |
29 | the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: | |
30 | ||
31 | DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm | |
32 | ||
33 | (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) | |
34 | ||
35 | In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something | |
36 | like this in your .xinitrc: | |
37 | ||
38 | while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" | |
39 | do | |
40 | sleep 1 | |
41 | done & | |
42 | exec dwm | |
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44 | ||
45 | Configuration | |
46 | ------------- | |
47 | The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h | |
48 | and (re)compiling the source code. |