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1 dwm - dynamic window manager
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2 ----------------------------
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4 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
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7 Requirements
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9 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
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12 Installation
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14 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into
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17 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
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20 make clean install
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23 Running dwm
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24 -----------
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25 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
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27 exec dwm
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29 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
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32 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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34 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
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37 Configuration
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39 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing the wm.h source file. To
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40 customize the key bindings edit dev.c.