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added a note how to achieve status info in the bar
| author | arg@10ksloc.org |
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| date | Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:59:11 +0200 |
| parents | e8a23f20097e |
| children | a4305fb0cfac |
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| garbeam@37 | 1 dwm - dynamic window manager |
| garbeam@37 | 2 ---------------------------- |
| garbeam@34 | 3 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. |
| garbeam@17 | 4 |
| garbeam@17 | 5 |
| garbeam@0 | 6 Requirements |
| garbeam@0 | 7 ------------ |
| garbeam@34 | 8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. |
| garbeam@0 | 9 |
| garbeam@0 | 10 |
| garbeam@0 | 11 Installation |
| garbeam@0 | 12 ------------ |
| garbeam@34 | 13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into |
| garbeam@0 | 14 the /usr/local namespace by default. |
| garbeam@0 | 15 |
| garbeam@34 | 16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if |
| garbeam@0 | 17 necessary as root): |
| garbeam@0 | 18 |
| garbeam@0 | 19 make clean install |
| garbeam@0 | 20 |
| garbeam@0 | 21 |
| garbeam@34 | 22 Running dwm |
| garbeam@37 | 23 ----------- |
| garbeam@34 | 24 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: |
| garbeam@0 | 25 |
| garbeam@34 | 26 exec dwm |
| garbeam@0 | 27 |
| garbeam@34 | 28 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that |
| garbeam@0 | 29 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: |
| garbeam@0 | 30 |
| garbeam@34 | 31 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm |
| garbeam@0 | 32 |
| garbeam@34 | 33 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. |
| garbeam@0 | 34 |
| garbeam@0 | 35 |
| arg@132 | 36 Displaying status info |
| arg@132 | 37 ---------------------- |
| arg@132 | 38 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following |
| arg@132 | 39 in .xinitrc: |
| arg@132 | 40 |
| arg@132 | 41 $HOME/.dwm/status | dwm |
| arg@132 | 42 |
| arg@132 | 43 Assumed $HOME/.dwm/status is an executable script like: |
| arg@132 | 44 |
| arg@132 | 45 #!/bin/sh |
| arg@132 | 46 while true |
| arg@132 | 47 do |
| arg@132 | 48 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` |
| arg@132 | 49 sleep 5 |
| arg@132 | 50 done |
| arg@132 | 51 |
| arg@132 | 52 |
| garbeam@0 | 53 Configuration |
| garbeam@0 | 54 ------------- |
| garbeam@87 | 55 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code, |
| garbeam@87 | 56 grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword. |