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1 | dwm - dynamic window manager | 1 | dmenu - dynamic menu |
2 | ---------------------------- | 2 | -------------------- |
3 | dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. | 3 | dwm is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window |
4 | System. | ||
4 | 5 | ||
5 | 6 | ||
6 | Requirements | 7 | Requirements |
7 | ------------ | 8 | ------------ |
8 | In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. | 9 | In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files. |
9 | 10 | ||
10 | 11 | ||
11 | Installation | 12 | Installation |
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13 | Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into | 14 | Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into |
14 | the /usr/local namespace by default). | 15 | the /usr/local namespace by default). |
15 | 16 | ||
16 | Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if | 17 | Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dmenu (if |
17 | necessary as root): | 18 | necessary as root): |
18 | 19 | ||
19 | make clean install | 20 | make clean install |
20 | 21 | ||
21 | 22 | ||
22 | Running dwm | 23 | Running dmenu |
23 | ----------- | 24 | ------------- |
24 | Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: | 25 | See the man page for details. |
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 true | ||
39 | do | ||
40 | echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` | ||
41 | sleep 1 | ||
42 | done | dwm | ||
43 | 26 | ||
44 | 27 | ||
45 | Configuration | 28 | Configuration |
46 | ------------- | 29 | ------------- |
47 | The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h | 30 | The configuration of dmenu is done by creating a custom config.h |
48 | and (re)compiling the source code. | 31 | and (re)compiling the source code. |