-gridwm
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-
-gridwm is an extremly fast, small, and automatic X11 window manager. It
-arranges all windows in a grid.
+dwm - dynamic window manager
+----------------------------
+dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
Requirements
------------
-In order to build gridwm you need the Xlib header files.
+In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
Installation
------------
-Edit config.mk to match your local setup. gridwm is installed into
+Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default.
-Afterwards enter the following command to build and install gridwm (if
+Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
necessary as root):
make clean install
-Running gridwm
---------------
-Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start gridwm using startx:
+Running dwm
+-----------
+Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
- exec gridwm
+ exec dwm
-In order to connect gridwm to a specific display, make sure that
+In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
- DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec gridwm
+ DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
+
+This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
+
+
+Displaying status info
+----------------------
+In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following
+in .xinitrc:
-This will start gridwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
+ $HOME/.dwm/status | dwm
+
+Assumed $HOME/.dwm/status is an executable script like:
+
+ #!/bin/sh
+ while true
+ do
+ echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
+ sleep 5
+ done
Configuration
-------------
-The configuration of gridwm is done by customizing the config.h source file. To
-customize the key bindings edit kb.c. To change the status output, edit the
-status command definition in wm.c.
-
+The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,
+grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.