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applying aluminium style for arg's config.h
| author | arg@mig29 |
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| date | Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:26:53 +0100 |
| parents | 4dbdb61c8b8c |
| children | 743061dbe7f2 |
| rev | line source |
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| garbeam@37 | 1 dwm - dynamic window manager |
| arg@497 | 2 ============================ |
| arg@316 | 3 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. |
| 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 |
| arg@172 | 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 |
| arg@154 | 33 (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) |
| garbeam@0 | 34 |
| arg@143 | 35 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something |
| arg@143 | 36 like this in your .xinitrc: |
| arg@132 | 37 |
| arg@132 | 38 while true |
| arg@132 | 39 do |
| arg@503 | 40 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'` |
| arg@143 | 41 sleep 1 |
| arg@135 | 42 done | dwm |
| arg@132 | 43 |
| arg@143 | 44 |
| garbeam@0 | 45 Configuration |
| garbeam@0 | 46 ------------- |
| arg@174 | 47 The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h |
| arg@174 | 48 and (re)compiling the source code. |