1 gridwm

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4 gridwm is an extremly fast, small, and automatic X11 window manager. It

5 arranges all windows in a grid.

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8 Requirements

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10 In order to build gridwm you need the Xlib header files.

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13 Installation

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15 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. gridwm is installed into

16 the /usr/local namespace by default.

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18 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install gridwm (if

19 necessary as root):

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21 make clean install

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24 Running gridwm

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26 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start gridwm using startx:

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28 exec gridwm

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30 In order to connect gridwm to a specific display, make sure that

31 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:

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33 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec gridwm

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35 This will start gridwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.

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38 Configuration

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40 The configuration of gridwm is done by customizing the config.h source file. To

41 customize the key bindings edit kb.c. To change the status output, edit the

42 status command definition in wm.c.

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