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| author | Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de> |
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| date | Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:26:50 +0200 |
| parents | eb14fb2c0ee0 |
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1 dwm - dynamic window manager
2 ----------------------------
4 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
7 Requirements
8 ------------
9 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
12 Installation
13 ------------
14 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into
15 the /usr/local namespace by default.
17 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
18 necessary as root):
20 make clean install
23 Running dwm
24 -----------
25 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
27 exec dwm
29 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
30 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
32 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
34 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
37 Configuration
38 -------------
39 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing the wm.h source file. To
40 customize the key bindings edit dev.c.