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author | arg@10ksloc.org |
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date | Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:07:41 +0200 |
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dwm - dynamic window manager ---------------------------- dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. Requirements ------------ In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. Installation ------------ Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default. Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if necessary as root): make clean install Running dwm ----------- Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: exec dwm In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. Displaying status info ---------------------- In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following in .xinitrc: $HOME/.dwm/status | dwm Assumed $HOME/.dwm/status is an executable script like: #!/bin/sh while true do echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` sleep 5 done Configuration ------------- The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code, grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.