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authorAryadev Chavali <aryadev@aryadevchavali.com>2024-08-07 21:28:13 +0100
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-dwm - dynamic window manager
-============================
+ ______________________________
+
+ DWM - DYNAMIC WINDOW MANAGER
+
+ Suckless
+ ______________________________
+
+
dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
Requirements
-------------
-In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
+============
+
+ 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):
+ Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into the
+ /usr/local namespace by default).
- make clean install
+ Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
+ necessary as root):
+ ,----
+ | make clean install
+ `----
Running dwm
------------
-Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
+===========
- exec 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.:
+ 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
+ ,----
+ | DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
+ `----
-(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
+ (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:
+ In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something like
+ this in your .xinitrc:
- while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
- do
- sleep 1
- done &
- exec dwm
+ ,----
+ | while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
+ | do
+ | sleep 1
+ | done &
+ | exec dwm
+ `----
Configuration
--------------
-The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling
-the source code. Refer to dwm(1) (stored in this repository as well) to find
-more information.
+=============
+
+ The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and
+ (re)compiling the source code. Refer to dwm(1) (stored in this
+ repository as well) to find more information.