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| author | Thomas Ulmer <thomasmulmer02@gmail.com> | 2026-06-14 08:59:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Thomas Ulmer <thomasmulmer02@gmail.com> | 2026-06-14 08:59:25 -0700 |
| commit | 3376b6420d3b6cc965890e46e7bbd06fbc9fd037 (patch) | |
| tree | 67b59ce0f9ba016db62067a081c0535d064d2a3f /suckless/dwm/dwm-6.6/README | |
| parent | d533343af750dcfda2321f33953b66396e767f10 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/suckless/dwm/dwm-6.6/README b/suckless/dwm/dwm-6.6/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..95d4fd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/suckless/dwm/dwm-6.6/README @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +dwm - dynamic window manager +============================ +dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. + + +Requirements +------------ +In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. + + +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): + + 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 + + +Configuration +------------- +The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h +and (re)compiling the source code. |
