https://github.com/cdown/dwm

Dynamic window manager for X (with extensive customisation)
https://github.com/cdown/dwm

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Dynamic window manager for X (with extensive customisation)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cdown/dwm
• Owner: cdown
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-02-09T12:00:55.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-03T21:19:15.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-25T16:57:56.306Z (9 days ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 5.66 MB
• Stars: 60
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 11
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
dwm - dynamic window manager

============================

dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.

Requirements

------------

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.

Installation

------------

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

Running dwm

-----------

Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:

    exec dwm

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 dwm

(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)

In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something

like this in your .xinitrc:

    while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"

    do

    	sleep 1

    done &

    exec dwm

Configuration

-------------

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h

and (re)compiling the source code.