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