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| author | Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de> |
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| date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:53:41 +0200 |
| parents | 491f34c11291 |
| children | aaf520f53110 |
| rev | line source |
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| garbeam@0 | 1 gridwm |
| garbeam@0 | 2 ------ |
| garbeam@0 | 3 |
| garbeam@0 | 4 gridwm is an automatic X11 window manager which arranges all windows in a grid. |
| garbeam@9 | 5 One goal is not to exceed 3kSLOC. |
| garbeam@0 | 6 |
| garbeam@0 | 7 |
| garbeam@0 | 8 Requirements |
| garbeam@0 | 9 ------------ |
| garbeam@0 | 10 In order to build gridwm you need the Xlib header files. |
| garbeam@0 | 11 |
| garbeam@0 | 12 |
| garbeam@0 | 13 Installation |
| garbeam@0 | 14 ------------ |
| garbeam@0 | 15 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. gridwm is installed into |
| garbeam@0 | 16 the /usr/local namespace by default. |
| garbeam@0 | 17 |
| garbeam@0 | 18 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install gridwm (if |
| garbeam@0 | 19 necessary as root): |
| garbeam@0 | 20 |
| garbeam@0 | 21 make clean install |
| garbeam@0 | 22 |
| garbeam@0 | 23 |
| garbeam@0 | 24 Running gridwm |
| garbeam@0 | 25 -------------- |
| garbeam@0 | 26 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start gridwm using startx: |
| garbeam@0 | 27 |
| garbeam@0 | 28 exec gridwm |
| garbeam@0 | 29 |
| garbeam@0 | 30 In order to connect gridwm to a specific display, make sure that |
| garbeam@0 | 31 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: |
| garbeam@0 | 32 |
| garbeam@0 | 33 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec wmii |
| garbeam@0 | 34 |
| garbeam@0 | 35 This will start gridwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. |
| garbeam@0 | 36 |
| garbeam@0 | 37 |
| garbeam@0 | 38 Configuration |
| garbeam@0 | 39 ------------- |
| garbeam@0 | 40 The configuration of gridwm is done by customizing the config.h |
| garbeam@0 | 41 source file. |