From 4dd1d30bc84369c949daf7b1ef26d7ef119104d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SyntaxError! <169557594+synt-xerror@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2026 20:16:04 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update README --- README | 23 ++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 95d4fd0..eac655f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,47 +2,44 @@ dwm - dynamic window manager ============================ dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. +You can find the original project website on: https://dwm.suckless.org + Requirements ------------ In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. +I use rofi as my app launcher and kitty as my terminal emulator. So if you want to use this, install both or change these apps on config.h. 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): +Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (as root): make clean install Running dwm ----------- -Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: +Add the following line to your ~/.xinitrc to start dwm using startx command: exec dwm -In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that +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 - +The xsetroot command won't work to change the text on the bar, instead it have two variables on dwm.c: stext and stext2 (top bar and bottom bar). Check out the drawbars() and drawbar() functions to understand more how it works. Configuration ------------- The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code. + +My preference is to edit dwm.c directely by now, but will make my functions to config.h soon.