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dwm 6.2 - dynamic window manager

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dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. This is a fork of suckless' project available here

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Modifications

You can find all the patches added in the patches directory (.diff files)


Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files and library. If Xinerama is toggled you will also need that library too.


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):

$ cd src
$ sudo 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.)

In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something like this in your .xinitrc:

    while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
    do
    	sleep 1
    done &
    exec dwm

Configuration

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.def.h and (re)compiling the source code.