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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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.