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author | Anselm R. Garbe <arg@10kloc.org> |
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date | Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:03:21 +0200 (2006-09-06) |
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37 | 1 dwm - dynamic window manager |
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3 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. |
17 | 4 |
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0 | 6 Requirements |
7 ------------ | |
34 | 8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. |
0 | 9 |
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11 Installation | |
12 ------------ | |
143 | 13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into |
14 the /usr/local namespace by default). | |
0 | 15 |
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16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if |
0 | 17 necessary as root): |
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19 make clean install | |
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34 | 22 Running dwm |
37 | 23 ----------- |
34 | 24 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: |
0 | 25 |
34 | 26 exec dwm |
0 | 27 |
34 | 28 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that |
0 | 29 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: |
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34 | 31 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm |
0 | 32 |
154 | 33 (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) |
0 | 34 |
143 | 35 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something |
36 like this in your .xinitrc: | |
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38 while true |
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39 do |
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40 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` |
143 | 41 sleep 1 |
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42 done | dwm |
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0 | 45 Configuration |
46 ------------- | |
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47 The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h |
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48 and (re)compiling the source code. |