1dwm - dynamic window manager
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 3dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
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 6Requirements
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 8In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
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11Installation
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13Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
14the /usr/local namespace by default).
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16Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
17necessary as root):
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19    make clean install
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22Running dwm
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24Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
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26    exec dwm
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28In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
29the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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31    DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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33This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
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36Displaying status info
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38In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
39like this in your .xinitrc:
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41    while true
42    do
43        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
44        sleep 1
45    done | dwm
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48Configuration
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50The configuration of dwm is done by customizing its source code
51(grep for the CUSTOMIZE keyword).