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
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 20
+ 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.