README
author arg@10ksloc.org
Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:46:59 +0200
changeset 166 e0535db04dfe
parent 154 a011f447af88
child 170 697715541a25
permissions -rw-r--r--
removed the CONFIG variable from config.mk, renamed config.h into config.default.h, after first clone/extract one needs to copy config.default.h to config.h, that is easier than always heavy typing make CONFIG=blafasel

dwm - dynamic window manager
----------------------------
dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.


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):

    cp config.default.h config.h
    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


Configuration
-------------
The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h.