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 Configuration

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10 You have to edit the source code for configuration, this WM is intended to

11 provide sane defaults, if something doesn't fits your needs, edit config.h and

12 maybe key.c. To change the status output edit that status variable definition

13 in wm.c.

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16 Requirements

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

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21 Installation

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

24 the /usr/local namespace by default.

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

27 necessary as root):

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29 make clean install

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32 Running gridwm

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

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36 exec gridwm

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

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

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41 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec gridwm

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

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46 Configuration

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48 The configuration of gridwm is done by customizing the config.h source file. To

49 customize the key bindings edit key.c. To change the status output, edit the

50 status command definition in wm.c.

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