My fork of Suckless's DWM window manager
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Anselm R Garbe 35db6d8afc removed .hgtags, thanks Dimitris for spotting 10 years ago
BUGS removed obsolete bugs from BUGS file 12 years ago
LICENSE applied Hiltjo's resize/move limitation 10 years ago
Makefile renamed draw into drw 12 years ago
README changed sleep 20 into sleep 1 in example script as suggested by Snader_LB 14 years ago
TODO added keyrelease remark to TODO 13 years ago
config.def.h applied improved version of Martti Kühne's dmenu/multi monitor approach from dwm, no dmenuspawn required 11 years ago
config.mk shut up about deprecated Xlib functions 12 years ago
drw.c applied Jochen's drw_text patch, thanks 12 years ago
drw.h applied Julian's enum approach, 12 years ago
dwm.1 added st to SEE ALSO section 12 years ago
dwm.c applied Hiltjo's resize/move limitation 10 years ago
dwm.png alternate dwm.png 19 years ago
transient.c applied Peter Hartlichs nice interim Xinerama and map fix patches, for debugging purposes I also added his transient test driver 13 years ago
util.c continued with draw.c abstraction, also started util.{h,c} implementation, that will be used by draw.c as well 12 years ago
util.h continued with draw.c abstraction, also started util.{h,c} implementation, that will be used by draw.c as well 12 years ago

README

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

If you are going to use the default bluegray color scheme it is highly
recommended to also install the bluegray files shipped in the dextra package.


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.