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dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. 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 Requirements
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In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. 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 Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default). the /usr/local namespace by default).
Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (as root):
necessary as root):
make clean install make clean install
Running dwm Running dwm
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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 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.: the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) (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 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.
like this in your .xinitrc:
while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
do
sleep 1
done &
exec dwm
Configuration Configuration
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code. 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.