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| author | Warrick Lo <warrick.s.z.lo@gmail.com> | 2021-11-22 22:00:25 -0800 |
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| committer | Warrick Lo <warrick.s.z.lo@gmail.com> | 2021-11-22 22:00:25 -0800 |
| commit | 6df36be9ba6d75f2e80843cfc56fc831f4d55462 (patch) | |
| tree | 916ae3ca84f31fc7d07ca272033986acbd28c861 /README | |
Add dwm 6.2 source code
Commit a786211 (2021-08-20) of the dwm source tree.
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@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +dwm - dynamic window manager +============================ +dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. + + +Requirements +------------ +In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. + + +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): + + 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.h +and (re)compiling the source code. |