dwm-meillo
annotate README @ 6:e0cefb3981c8
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| author | Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de> |
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| date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:10:05 +0200 |
| parents | |
| children | d567f430a81d |
| rev | line source |
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| garbeam@0 | 1 gridwm |
| garbeam@0 | 2 ------ |
| garbeam@0 | 3 |
| garbeam@0 | 4 gridwm is an automatic X11 window manager which arranges all windows in a grid. |
| garbeam@0 | 5 |
| garbeam@0 | 6 |
| garbeam@0 | 7 Requirements |
| garbeam@0 | 8 ------------ |
| garbeam@0 | 9 In order to build gridwm you need the Xlib header files. |
| garbeam@0 | 10 |
| garbeam@0 | 11 |
| garbeam@0 | 12 Installation |
| garbeam@0 | 13 ------------ |
| garbeam@0 | 14 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. gridwm is installed into |
| garbeam@0 | 15 the /usr/local namespace by default. |
| garbeam@0 | 16 |
| garbeam@0 | 17 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install gridwm (if |
| garbeam@0 | 18 necessary as root): |
| garbeam@0 | 19 |
| garbeam@0 | 20 make clean install |
| garbeam@0 | 21 |
| garbeam@0 | 22 |
| garbeam@0 | 23 Running gridwm |
| garbeam@0 | 24 -------------- |
| garbeam@0 | 25 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start gridwm using startx: |
| garbeam@0 | 26 |
| garbeam@0 | 27 exec gridwm |
| garbeam@0 | 28 |
| garbeam@0 | 29 In order to connect gridwm to a specific display, make sure that |
| garbeam@0 | 30 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: |
| garbeam@0 | 31 |
| garbeam@0 | 32 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec wmii |
| garbeam@0 | 33 |
| garbeam@0 | 34 This will start gridwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. |
| garbeam@0 | 35 |
| garbeam@0 | 36 |
| garbeam@0 | 37 Configuration |
| garbeam@0 | 38 ------------- |
| garbeam@0 | 39 The configuration of gridwm is done by customizing the config.h |
| garbeam@0 | 40 source file. |