dwm - dynamic window manager

Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.

Installation

1. Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).
2. 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

• Or just add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm_status_bar using startx:

exec dwm_status_bar

Configuration

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.