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dwm - dynamic window manager dmenu - dynamic menu
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dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. dwm is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window
System.
Requirements Requirements
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In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files.
Installation Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default). 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): necessary as root):
make clean install make clean install
Running dwm Running dmenu
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Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: See the man page for details.
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
Configuration 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. and (re)compiling the source code.