https://github.com/mahmoudelshimi/mwm
Maria's Window Manger is a fork of dwm an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X written in C.
https://github.com/mahmoudelshimi/mwm
c dwm linux open-source openbsd suckless x11-wm
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Maria's Window Manger is a fork of dwm an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X written in C.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mahmoudelshimi/mwm
- Owner: mahmoudElshimi
- License: mit
- Created: 2023-09-27T15:48:42.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-05T13:22:02.000Z (3 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-05T14:24:26.041Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: c, dwm, linux, open-source, openbsd, suckless, x11-wm
- Language: C
- Homepage:
- Size: 1.09 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
mwm - Maria's Window Manager
=====================================
mwm is a fork of [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org/) an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X written in C.
Requirements
------------
In order to build mwm you need the Xlib header files.
Installation
------------
Edit config.mk to match your local setup (mwm is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default).
Afterwards enter the following command to build and install mwm (if
necessary as root):
```
make clean install
```
Running mwm
------------
Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start mwm using startx:
```
exec mwm
```
In order to connect mwm to a specific display, make sure that
the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
```
DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec mwm
```
(This will start mwm 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 mwm
```
Or you can use something better like [slstatus](https://tools.suckless.org/slstatus/) which is written in C.
```
slstatus&
exec mwm
```
Configuration
-------------
The configuration of mwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.