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37 | 1 dwm - dynamic window manager |
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143 | 3 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. |
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0 | 6 Requirements |
7 ------------ | |
34 | 8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. |
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11 Installation | |
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143 | 13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into |
14 the /usr/local namespace by default). | |
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34 | 16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if |
0 | 17 necessary as root): |
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19 make clean install | |
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24 make CONFIG=<your-config>.h clean install |
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34 | 27 Running dwm |
37 | 28 ----------- |
34 | 29 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: |
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34 | 31 exec dwm |
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34 | 33 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that |
0 | 34 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: |
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34 | 36 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm |
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34 | 38 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. |
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143 | 43 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something |
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46 while true |
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48 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` |
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50 done | dwm |
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0 | 53 Configuration |
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55 The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h. |