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     1 dwm - dynamic window manager
     1 dwm - dynamic window manager
     2 ----------------------------
     2 ----------------------------
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     4 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
     3 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
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     7 Requirements
     6 Requirements
     8 ------------
     7 ------------
    32     DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
    31     DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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    34 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
    33 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
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    36 Displaying status info
       
    37 ----------------------
       
    38 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following
       
    39 in .xinitrc:
       
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    41     $HOME/.dwm/status | dwm
       
    42 
       
    43 Assumed $HOME/.dwm/status is an executable script like:
       
    44 
       
    45     #!/bin/sh
       
    46     while true
       
    47     do
       
    48         echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
       
    49         sleep 5
       
    50     done
       
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    37 Configuration
    53 Configuration
    38 -------------
    54 -------------
    39 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,
    55 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,
    40 grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.
    56 grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.