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DWM Build

Primary LanguageCMIT LicenseMIT

This one is for my Ubuntu (21.04) System

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 filesr, make, gcc

Important !!!

  • nobody group is required for slock to work
    sudo groupadd nobody

Fonts:

  • FiraCode Nerd Font
  • Noto Sans Font
  • Font Awesome (Optional for weather and all)

Dependencies:

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:

sudo 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.def.h and (re)compiling the source code.