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Setanta's build of DWM.

dwm - dynamic window manager

dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.

Patches Applied

  • smartborders
  • fullscreen
  • sticky
  • Xresources
  • centeredmaster
  • bottomstack
  • swallow
  • tag previews
  • shift-tools
  • cyclelayouts
  • stacker
  • rmaster
  • deck layout
  • cfacts
  • pertag
  • gapless grid layout

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):

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 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.

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C93.4%Roff4.7%Makefile2.0%
MIT License
Created May 24, 2023
Updated May 24, 2023
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