garbeam@37: dwm - dynamic window manager arg@497: ============================ arg@316: dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. garbeam@17: garbeam@17: garbeam@0: Requirements garbeam@0: ------------ garbeam@34: In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. garbeam@0: garbeam@0: garbeam@0: Installation garbeam@0: ------------ arg@143: Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into arg@143: the /usr/local namespace by default). garbeam@0: arg@172: Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if garbeam@0: necessary as root): garbeam@0: garbeam@0: make clean install garbeam@0: garbeam@0: garbeam@34: Running dwm garbeam@37: ----------- garbeam@34: Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: garbeam@0: garbeam@34: exec dwm garbeam@0: garbeam@34: In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that garbeam@0: the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: garbeam@0: garbeam@34: DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm garbeam@0: arg@154: (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) garbeam@0: arg@143: In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something arg@143: like this in your .xinitrc: arg@132: arg@132: while true arg@132: do arg@132: echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` arg@143: sleep 1 arg@135: done | dwm arg@132: arg@143: garbeam@0: Configuration garbeam@0: ------------- arg@174: The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h arg@174: and (re)compiling the source code.