README.md (1040B)
1 # My dwm fork (dynamic window manager) 2 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. 3 4 5 #### Requirements 6 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. 7 8 #### Installation 9 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into 10 the /usr/local namespace by default). 11 12 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if 13 necessary as root): 14 15 make clean install 16 17 #### Running dwm 18 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: 19 20 exec dwm 21 22 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that 23 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: 24 25 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm 26 27 (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) 28 29 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something 30 like this in your .xinitrc: 31 32 while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" 33 do 34 sleep 1 35 done & 36 exec dwm 37 38 39 #### Configuration 40 The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h 41 and (re)compiling the source code.