This git repository contains my personal branch of dwm-6.4. The changes made to stock dwm add the following abilities. - Added new layout with three columns, master in the middle. - 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. - Active client has wide, red border. - Customized rules/keybindings in `config.h`. 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. - Build and install SGK version of dwmstatus, then call from `.xinitrc`. ================================================================================ ================================================================================ ================================================================================ 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.