X-Git-Url: http://git.subgeniuskitty.com/dwm/.git/blobdiff_plain/8f6a31e7c64fa135f397e110caeb785979eaf535..13dd93684910cd0210ca0158b2f8279499ab0adf:/README diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index e2ab93b..0000000 --- a/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,95 +0,0 @@ -This git repository contains my personal branch of dwm-6.4. - -The changes made to stock dwm add the following abilities. - - - Draw per-client indicators in the tag section of the status bar. - - - - Prompt the user before exiting/restarting dwm. - - - - Assign text names to tags at runtime. - - - - Layout menu popup presents available layouts. - - - - Select multiple tags for simultaneous display or window assignment. - - - - Deselect ALL tags, displaying an empty desktop. - - - - Center window names in status bar. - - -In addition to the usual dependencies and installation tasks for dwm (see the -original README at the bottom of this file), there are the following new -dependencies/tasks. - - - xmenu from . This requires freetype2 - and imlib2, available in FreeBSD's ports collection under `print/freetype2` - and `graphics/imlib2`. This is required for the layout menu popup. - - - Customize (if needed) and install `layoutmenu.sh` somewhere in your `$PATH`. - Remember to make it executable. - -================================================================================ -================================================================================ -================================================================================ - -Below is the original dwm README file. - -================================================================================ -================================================================================ -================================================================================ - - -dwm - dynamic window manager -============================ -dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. - - -Requirements ------------- -In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. - - -Installation ------------- -Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into -the /usr/local namespace by default). - -Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if -necessary as root): - - make clean install - - -Running dwm ------------ -Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: - - exec dwm - -In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that -the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: - - DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm - -(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) - -In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something -like this in your .xinitrc: - - while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" - do - sleep 1 - done & - exec dwm - - -Configuration -------------- -The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h -and (re)compiling the source code.