dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header filesr, make, gcc
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- FiraCode Nerd Font
- Noto Sans Font
- Font Awesome (Optional for weather and all)
- Xlib, libXft, and Xinerama header files
- Clipmenu: https://github.com/cdown/clipmenu
- Clipnotify: https://github.com/cdown/clipnotify
- libxfixes-dev, libxfixes3, x11proto-core-dev, libx11-dev
- Slock: https://github.com/khuedoan/slock
- Skippy (For the Overview) : https://github.com/jash-maester/skippy-xd
- Ubuntu: libjpeg-dev, libgif-dev
- Flameshot : Screenshot tool
- Xbanish : TO hide mouse pointer while typing
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
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
The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.def.h and (re)compiling the source code.