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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 | 
| @@ -13,36 +14,18 @@ Installation | |||
| 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. | 
