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authorarg@10ksloc.org <unknown>2006-08-04 09:35:27 +0200
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1dwm - dynamic window manager
2----------------------------
3dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
4
5
6Requirements
7------------
8In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
9
10
11Installation
12------------
13Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
14the /usr/local namespace by default).
15
16Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
17necessary as root):
18
19 make clean install
20
21
22Running dwm
23-----------
24Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
25
26 exec dwm
27
28In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
29the 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
35In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
36like this in your .xinitrc:
37
38 while true
39 do
40 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
41 sleep 1
42 done | dwm
43
44
45Configuration
46-------------
47The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
48and (re)compiling the source code.