https://github.com/phenax/dwm
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/phenax/dwm
- Owner: phenax
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-06-07T07:56:55.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-12-14T10:48:13.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-16T15:12:24.138Z (7 months ago)
- Language: C
- Size: 6.26 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# dwm - dynamic window manager
dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
## 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.