dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
This project has been configured to run with X11 libraries located in Fedora locations. From https://jacekkowalczyk.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/how-to-install-dwm-from-suckless-org-at-fedora-29/
sudo dnf install dwm git dmenu st
mkdir ~/git && cd ~/git
git clone git://git.suckless.org/dwm
cd dwm
sudo dnf install libX11-devel
sudo dnf install libXft-devel
sudo dnf install libXinerama-devel
sudo dnf install nitrogen
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-xinit-session
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
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
The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.