dwm - dynamic window manager
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dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
Requirements
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In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
You also require rofi and kitty unless you edit the config.
Installation
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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
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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
I put this in my xinitrc to have restarting without a patch:
while type dwm>/dev/null; do
dwm && continue || break
done
This means that if someone runs pkill dwm, dwm exits with 1 and you are bumped to tty, but with quit(0), dwm returns 0 and it is relaunched.
Configuration
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.
In this repo, config.h is symlinked to config.def.h, so edit that instead