1 gridwm

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4 gridwm is an extremly fast, small, and automatic X11 window manager. It

5 arranges all windows in a grid.

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8 Requirements

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10 In order to build gridwm you need the Xlib header files.

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13 Installation

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15 Edit config.mk to match your local setup. gridwm is installed into

16 the /usr/local namespace by default.

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18 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install gridwm (if

19 necessary as root):

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21 make clean install

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24 Running gridwm

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26 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start gridwm using startx:

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28 exec gridwm

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30 In order to connect gridwm to a specific display, make sure that

31 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:

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33 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec gridwm

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35 This will start gridwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.

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38 Configuration

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40 The configuration of gridwm is done by customizing the wm.h source file. To

41 customize the key bindings edit kb.c.