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dwm - dynamic window manager
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dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
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Requirements
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In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
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Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default).
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
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necessary as root):
make clean install
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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.
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Running dwm
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Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
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exec dwm
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In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
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the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
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In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
like this in your .xinitrc:
while true
do
xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
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sleep 1
done &
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dwm
kill $!
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Configuration
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.