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paulo@0	1 dwm - dynamic window manager
paulo@0	2 ============================
paulo@0	3 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
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paulo@0	6 Requirements
paulo@0	7 ------------
paulo@0	8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
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paulo@0	11 Installation
paulo@0	12 ------------
paulo@0	13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
paulo@0	14 the /usr/local namespace by default).
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paulo@0	16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
paulo@0	17 necessary as root):
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paulo@0	19 make clean install
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paulo@0	22 Running dwm
paulo@0	23 -----------
paulo@0	24 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
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paulo@0	26 exec dwm
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paulo@0	28 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
paulo@0	29 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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paulo@0	31 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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paulo@0	33 (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
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paulo@0	35 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
paulo@0	36 like this in your .xinitrc:
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paulo@0	38 while true
paulo@0	39 do
paulo@0	40 echo `date` `uptime \| sed 's/.*,//'`
paulo@0	41 sleep 1
paulo@0	42 done \| dwm
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paulo@0	45 Configuration
paulo@0	46 -------------
paulo@0	47 The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
paulo@0	48 and (re)compiling the source code.

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