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46 lines
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dwm - dynamic window manager
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dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
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You can find the original project website on: https://dwm.suckless.org
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Requirements
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In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
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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.
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Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
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the /usr/local namespace by default).
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (as root):
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make clean install
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Running dwm
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Add the following line to your ~/.xinitrc to start dwm using startx command:
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exec dwm
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In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make
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sure that
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the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
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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.
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Configuration
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
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and (re)compiling the source code.
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My preference is to edit dwm.c directely by now, but will make my functions to config.h soon.
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