dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
This is a copy of my custom dwm 6.0 sources.
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
The xinitrc file requires the following:
- Nitrogen
- Compton compositor
- Conky
- xfce4-panel
- xfdesktop (optional)
Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).
Run the install.sh script to install the custom dwm desktop environment:
./install.sh
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.
Run the startx command from the console to start 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.