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61 lines
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______________________________
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DWM - DYNAMIC WINDOW MANAGER
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Suckless
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dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
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Requirements
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In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. Optionally
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you will also need xinerama.
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Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into the
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/usr/local namespace by default).
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
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necessary as root):
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| make clean install
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`----
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Running dwm
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Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
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,----
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| exec dwm
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`----
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In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that the
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DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly. For example, to
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start dwm on the host foo.bar on display 1:
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| DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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`----
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When hacking on the source code, it may be cumbersome to restart
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dwm. By adding the following to your .xinitrc, one may restart dwm
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simply by killing the process, which will be immediately spawned
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again by the XServer.
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,----
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| while :
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| do
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| dwm
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| done
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Any applications will still exist after dwm is restarted, but may
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not be arranged the same as before the restart. Refer to the
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`rules` variable in config.h for automatic layout control.
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Configuration
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and
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(re)compiling the source code. Refer to dwm(1) (stored in this
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repository as well) to find more information.
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