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dwm - dynamic window manager
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dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
dmenu - dynamic menu
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dwm is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window
System.
Requirements
------------
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files.
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
Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dmenu (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 true
do
echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
sleep 1
done | dwm
Running dmenu
-------------
See the man page for details.
Configuration
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
The configuration of dmenu is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.