1 dwm - dynamic window manager 2 ============================ 3 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. 4 5 6 Requirements 7 ------------ 8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. 9 10 11 Installation 12 ------------ 13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into 14 the /usr/local namespace by default). 15 16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if 17 necessary as root): 18 19 make clean install 20 21 22 Running dwm 23 ----------- 24 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: 25 26 exec dwm 27 28 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that 29 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: 30 31 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm 32 33 (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) 34 35 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something 36 like this in your .xinitrc: 37 38 while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" 39 do 40 sleep 1 41 done & 42 exec dwm 43 44 45 Configuration 46 ------------- 47 The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h 48 and (re)compiling the source code.
