dwm-meillo
annotate README @ 146:f328ce9c558c
centralized/externalized configuration to config.h
author | arg@10ksloc.org |
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date | Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:59:13 +0200 |
parents | 36cabfe408cd |
children | a011f447af88 |
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garbeam@37 | 1 dwm - dynamic window manager |
garbeam@37 | 2 ---------------------------- |
arg@143 | 3 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. |
garbeam@17 | 4 |
garbeam@17 | 5 |
garbeam@0 | 6 Requirements |
garbeam@0 | 7 ------------ |
garbeam@34 | 8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. |
garbeam@0 | 9 |
garbeam@0 | 10 |
garbeam@0 | 11 Installation |
garbeam@0 | 12 ------------ |
arg@143 | 13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into |
arg@143 | 14 the /usr/local namespace by default). |
garbeam@0 | 15 |
garbeam@34 | 16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if |
garbeam@0 | 17 necessary as root): |
garbeam@0 | 18 |
garbeam@0 | 19 make clean install |
garbeam@0 | 20 |
arg@146 | 21 If you want to use a customized config.h, you can use the following |
arg@146 | 22 command for installing dwm: |
arg@146 | 23 |
arg@146 | 24 make CONFIG=<your-config>.h clean install |
arg@146 | 25 |
garbeam@0 | 26 |
garbeam@34 | 27 Running dwm |
garbeam@37 | 28 ----------- |
garbeam@34 | 29 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: |
garbeam@0 | 30 |
garbeam@34 | 31 exec dwm |
garbeam@0 | 32 |
garbeam@34 | 33 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that |
garbeam@0 | 34 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: |
garbeam@0 | 35 |
garbeam@34 | 36 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm |
garbeam@0 | 37 |
garbeam@34 | 38 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. |
garbeam@0 | 39 |
garbeam@0 | 40 |
arg@132 | 41 Displaying status info |
arg@132 | 42 ---------------------- |
arg@143 | 43 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something |
arg@143 | 44 like this in your .xinitrc: |
arg@132 | 45 |
arg@132 | 46 while true |
arg@132 | 47 do |
arg@132 | 48 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` |
arg@143 | 49 sleep 1 |
arg@135 | 50 done | dwm |
arg@132 | 51 |
arg@143 | 52 |
garbeam@0 | 53 Configuration |
garbeam@0 | 54 ------------- |
arg@146 | 55 The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h. |