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applied Cedric's NumLock patch
author arg@10ksloc.org
date Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:41:38 +0200
parents 3a9caa6d565b
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garbeam@37 1 dwm - dynamic window manager
garbeam@37 2 ----------------------------
arg@143 3 dwm is an extremely 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 ------------
arg@143 13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
arg@143 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@143 38 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
arg@143 39 like this in your .xinitrc:
arg@132 40
arg@132 41 while true
arg@132 42 do
arg@132 43 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
arg@143 44 sleep 1
arg@135 45 done | dwm
arg@132 46
arg@143 47
garbeam@0 48 Configuration
garbeam@0 49 -------------
arg@143 50 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing its source code
arg@143 51 (grep for the CUSTOMIZE keyword).