1dwm - dynamic window manager
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 3dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
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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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33(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
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35In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
36like this in your .xinitrc:
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38    while true
39    do
40        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
41        sleep 1
42    done | dwm
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45Configuration
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47The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
48and (re)compiling the source code.