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1dwm - dynamic window manager 2============================ 3dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. 4 5 6Requirements 7------------ 8In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. 9 10 11Installation 12------------ 13Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into 14the /usr/local namespace by default). 15 16Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if 17necessary as root): 18 19 make clean install 20 21 22Running dwm 23----------- 24Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: 25 26 exec dwm 27 28In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that 29the 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 35In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something 36like 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 45Configuration 46------------- 47The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h 48and (re)compiling the source code.