dwm - dynamic window manager ============================ my configuration of dwm, an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. this is an attempt to combine the ideas of dynamic tiling window management with the ux/ergonomic considerations of the infamous "why tiling window managers suck" [rant](http://xahlee.info/linux/why_tiling_window_manager_sucks.html). Objectives: simple, ergonomic, reasonable Goals: - Use more of a tagging approach instead of abusing tags as traditional workspaces - Get rid of key chords - Remove modifiers for most used actions. Use F1-12 keys instead. - Maybe keep vim-style keybindings for moving and orientation - Switch to sticky keys/key sequences wherever not possible to completely remove modifier - Use only thumbs for modifiers, never use the pinkys! - Automate my most used actions and workflows - tag all relevant clients automatically, handle popups and floating clients correctly - predefined layouts - functions to superimpose browser or mail client into current tag - Practical - provide systray so we can out-source wifi/bluetooth/volume management and not fiddle with shellscripts - include all patches that deal with broken software - Distinctive, easy-to-read colorscheme based on Tango color palette - One-click install: status script and xsession launch script included 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 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.