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dwm - dynamic window manager |
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dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. |
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dmenu - dynamic menu |
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dwm is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window |
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System. |
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Requirements |
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In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. |
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In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files. |
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Installation |
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into |
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the /usr/local namespace by default). |
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if |
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dmenu (if |
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necessary as root): |
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make clean install |
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Running dwm |
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Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: |
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exec dwm |
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In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that |
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the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: |
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DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm |
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(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) |
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In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something |
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like this in your .xinitrc: |
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while true |
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do |
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echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` |
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sleep 1 |
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done | dwm |
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Running dmenu |
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See the man page for details. |
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Configuration |
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h |
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The configuration of dmenu is done by creating a custom config.h |
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and (re)compiling the source code. |
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