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| author | arg@10ksloc.org |
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| date | Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:54:14 +0200 |
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1 dwm - dynamic window manager
2 ----------------------------
3 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
6 Requirements
7 ------------
8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
11 Installation
12 ------------
13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into
14 the /usr/local namespace by default.
16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
17 necessary as root):
19 make clean install
22 Running dwm
23 -----------
24 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
26 exec dwm
28 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
29 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
31 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
33 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
36 Displaying status info
37 ----------------------
38 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following
39 in .xinitrc:
41 while true
42 do
43 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
44 sleep 2
45 done | dwm
47 Configuration
48 -------------
49 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,
50 grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.