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author | Sam Chudnick <sam@chudnick.com> | 2021-11-07 06:43:28 -0500 |
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1 | dwm - dynamic window manager | ||
2 | ============================ | ||
3 | dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. | ||
4 | |||
5 | |||
6 | Requirements | ||
7 | ------------ | ||
8 | In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. | ||
9 | |||
10 | |||
11 | Installation | ||
12 | ------------ | ||
13 | Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into | ||
14 | the /usr/local namespace by default). | ||
15 | |||
16 | Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if | ||
17 | necessary as root): | ||
18 | |||
19 | make clean install | ||
20 | |||
21 | |||
22 | Running dwm | ||
23 | ----------- | ||
24 | Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: | ||
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 xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" | ||
39 | do | ||
40 | sleep 1 | ||
41 | done & | ||
42 | exec dwm | ||
43 | |||
44 | |||
45 | Configuration | ||
46 | ------------- | ||
47 | The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h | ||
48 | and (re)compiling the source code. | ||