garbeam@37: dwm - dynamic window manager garbeam@37: ---------------------------- garbeam@34: dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. 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: ------------ garbeam@34: Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into garbeam@0: the /usr/local namespace by default. garbeam@0: garbeam@34: 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: garbeam@34: This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. garbeam@0: garbeam@0: arg@132: Displaying status info arg@132: ---------------------- arg@132: In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following arg@132: in .xinitrc: arg@132: arg@132: $HOME/.dwm/status | dwm arg@132: arg@132: Assumed $HOME/.dwm/status is an executable script like: arg@132: arg@132: #!/bin/sh arg@132: while true arg@132: do arg@132: echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` arg@132: sleep 5 arg@132: done arg@132: arg@132: garbeam@0: Configuration garbeam@0: ------------- garbeam@87: The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code, garbeam@87: grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.