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several other additions/fixes, dwm is quite usable already
| author | Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de> |
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| date | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:21:38 +0200 |
| parents | eb14fb2c0ee0 |
| children | e8a23f20097e |
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| garbeam@37 | 1 dwm - dynamic window manager |
| garbeam@37 | 2 ---------------------------- |
| garbeam@0 | 3 |
| garbeam@34 | 4 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. |
| garbeam@17 | 5 |
| garbeam@17 | 6 |
| garbeam@0 | 7 Requirements |
| garbeam@0 | 8 ------------ |
| garbeam@34 | 9 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. |
| garbeam@0 | 10 |
| garbeam@0 | 11 |
| garbeam@0 | 12 Installation |
| garbeam@0 | 13 ------------ |
| garbeam@34 | 14 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into |
| garbeam@0 | 15 the /usr/local namespace by default. |
| garbeam@0 | 16 |
| garbeam@34 | 17 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if |
| garbeam@0 | 18 necessary as root): |
| garbeam@0 | 19 |
| garbeam@0 | 20 make clean install |
| garbeam@0 | 21 |
| garbeam@0 | 22 |
| garbeam@34 | 23 Running dwm |
| garbeam@37 | 24 ----------- |
| garbeam@34 | 25 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: |
| garbeam@0 | 26 |
| garbeam@34 | 27 exec dwm |
| garbeam@0 | 28 |
| garbeam@34 | 29 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that |
| garbeam@0 | 30 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: |
| garbeam@0 | 31 |
| garbeam@34 | 32 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm |
| garbeam@0 | 33 |
| garbeam@34 | 34 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. |
| garbeam@0 | 35 |
| garbeam@0 | 36 |
| garbeam@0 | 37 Configuration |
| garbeam@0 | 38 ------------- |
| garbeam@34 | 39 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing the wm.h source file. To |
| garbeam@42 | 40 customize the key bindings edit dev.c. |