Mercurial > aewl
annotate README @ 25:e238dc4844d7
fixed configurerequest
| author | Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:53:11 +0200 |
| parents | 1efa34c6e1b6 |
| children | 082c75b937b5 |
| rev | line source |
|---|---|
| 0 | 1 gridwm |
| 2 ------ | |
| 3 | |
| 17 | 4 gridwm is an extremly fast, small, and automatic X11 window manager. It |
| 5 arranges all windows in a grid. | |
| 6 | |
| 7 | |
| 0 | 8 Requirements |
| 9 ------------ | |
| 10 In order to build gridwm you need the Xlib header files. | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 Installation | |
| 14 ------------ | |
| 15 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. gridwm is installed into | |
| 16 the /usr/local namespace by default. | |
| 17 | |
| 18 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install gridwm (if | |
| 19 necessary as root): | |
| 20 | |
| 21 make clean install | |
| 22 | |
| 23 | |
| 24 Running gridwm | |
| 25 -------------- | |
| 26 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start gridwm using startx: | |
| 27 | |
| 28 exec gridwm | |
| 29 | |
| 30 In order to connect gridwm to a specific display, make sure that | |
| 31 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: | |
| 32 | |
| 17 | 33 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec gridwm |
| 0 | 34 |
| 35 This will start gridwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. | |
| 36 | |
| 37 | |
| 38 Configuration | |
| 39 ------------- | |
| 17 | 40 The configuration of gridwm is done by customizing the config.h source file. To |
|
18
1efa34c6e1b6
added mouse-based resizals
Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de>
parents:
17
diff
changeset
|
41 customize the key bindings edit kb.c. To change the status output, edit the |
| 17 | 42 status command definition in wm.c. |
| 43 |