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1 dwm - dynamic window manager 1 dwm - dynamic window manager
2 ---------------------------- 2 ----------------------------
3 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. 3 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
4 4
5 5
6 Requirements 6 Requirements
7 ------------ 7 ------------
8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. 8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
9 9
10 10
11 Installation 11 Installation
12 ------------ 12 ------------
13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into 13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
14 the /usr/local namespace by default. 14 the /usr/local namespace by default).
15 15
16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if 16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
17 necessary as root): 17 necessary as root):
18 18
19 make clean install 19 make clean install
33 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. 33 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
34 34
35 35
36 Displaying status info 36 Displaying status info
37 ---------------------- 37 ----------------------
38 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following 38 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
39 in .xinitrc: 39 like this in your .xinitrc:
40 40
41 while true 41 while true
42 do 42 do
43 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` 43 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
44 sleep 2 44 sleep 1
45 done | dwm 45 done | dwm
46
46 47
47 Configuration 48 Configuration
48 ------------- 49 -------------
49 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code, 50 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing its source code
50 grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword. 51 (grep for the CUSTOMIZE keyword).