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   1 dwm - dynamic window manager
   2 ----------------------------
   3 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
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   6 Requirements
   7 ------------
   8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
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  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
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  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
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  33 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
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  36 Displaying status info
  37 ----------------------
  38 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following
  39 in .xinitrc:
  40
  41     while true
  42     do
  43         echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
  44         sleep 5
  45     done | dwm
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  47 Configuration
  48 -------------
  49 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,
  50 grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.