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Note: Personal fork of dwm (https://dwm.suckless.org/), based on version 6.1.

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dwm - dynamic window manager

dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.

Requirements

xfonts-terminus feh conky-cli libx11-dev libxau-dev libxinerama-dev libxft-dev libxrandr-dev

Optional

lxappearance wicd-gtk (replace network-mananger) workrave tmux xclip oh-my-zsh

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

If you are going to use the default bluegray color scheme it is highly recommended to also install the bluegray files shipped in the dextra package.

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.