dwm - dynamic window manager
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-dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
+============================
+dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
Requirements
Installation
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-Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into
-the /usr/local namespace by default.
+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 dwm (if
necessary as root):
make 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
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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 following
-in .xinitrc:
+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 2
- done | dwm
+ sleep 1
+ done &
+ exec dwm
+
Configuration
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-The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,
-grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.
+The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
+and (re)compiling the source code.