README
author Anselm R Garbe <anselm@garbe.us>
Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:31:14 +0100
changeset 1500 48c3f87c335d
parent 1375 9bd33197840f
child 1539 e2a9bd720b6e
permissions -rw-r--r--
fixed the layout symbol bug reported by Nibble (but using a different approach as he suggested) - optimised drawbar() and arrange() handling for multiple monitors, arrange only arranges the relevant monitors when applicable, same with drawbar - need to release 5.7.1

dwm - dynamic window manager
============================
dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.


Requirements
------------
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.


Installation
------------
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 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.


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
        xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
        sleep 1
    done &
    exec dwm


Configuration
-------------
The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.