README

   1 dwm - dynamic window manager
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   3 dwm is an extremely 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
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  13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
  14 the /usr/local namespace by default).
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  16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
  17 necessary as root):
  18
  19     cp config.default.h config.h
  20     make clean install
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  23 Running dwm
  24 -----------
  25 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
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  27     exec dwm
  28
  29 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
  30 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
  31
  32     DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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  34 (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
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  36 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
  37 like this in your .xinitrc:
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  39     while true
  40     do
  41         echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
  42         sleep 1
  43     done | dwm
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  46 Configuration
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  48 The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h.