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.
Installation
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There are some dependencies when install dwm:
sudo apt install git make gcc g++ libx11-dev libxft-dev libxinerama-dev dbus-x11
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 run with sudo, do not forget to preserve env:
sudo -E 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
Testing dwm
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Using Xephyr to create a virtual display:
Xephyr -br -ac -noreset -screen 800x600 :1
(use sudo to capture user input)
Use the DISPLAY environment variable to connect to the display and run dwm on
it:
DISPLAY=:1 dwm
Configuration
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.
Documentation
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After installing dwm, you have access to:
man dwm(1)