Mercurial > hg > index.fcgi > dwm > dwm-3.6.1-12pba

view README @ 11:da0e0496f75b

find changesets by author, revision, files, or words in the commit message
add "inverse" color set, for indicating in the status bar when in command mode
author paulo
date Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:17:32 -0700
parents
children
line source
1 dwm - dynamic window manager
2 ============================
3 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
4
5
6 Requirements
7 ------------
8 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
9
10
11 Installation
12 ------------
13 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
14 the /usr/local namespace by default).
15
16 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
17 necessary as root):
18
19 make clean install
20
21
22 Running dwm
23 -----------
24 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
25
26 exec dwm
27
28 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
29 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
30
31 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
32
33 (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
34
35 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
36 like this in your .xinitrc:
37
38 while true
39 do
40 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`
41 sleep 1
42 done | dwm
43
44
45 Configuration
46 -------------
47 The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
48 and (re)compiling the source code.