dwm - dynamic window manager
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-dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
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+dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
Requirements
make clean install
-If you want to use a customized config.h, you can use the following
-command for installing dwm:
-
- make CONFIG=<your-config>.h clean install
+If you are going to use the default bluegray color scheme it is highly
+recommended to also install the bluegray files shipped in the dextra package.
Running dwm
DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
-This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
-
+(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
-Displaying status info
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In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
like this in your .xinitrc:
- while true
+ while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
do
- echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
- sleep 1
- done | dwm
+ sleep 1
+ done &
+ exec dwm
Configuration
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-The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h.
+The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
+and (re)compiling the source code.