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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21If you want to use a customized config.h, you can use the following
22command for installing dwm:
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24    make CONFIG=<your-config>.h clean install
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27Running dwm
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29Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
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31    exec dwm
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33In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
34the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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36    DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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38This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
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41Displaying status info
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43In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
44like this in your .xinitrc:
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46    while true
47    do
48        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
49        sleep 1
50    done | dwm
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53Configuration
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55The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h.