podit's dwm 6.2 fork - https://git.suckless.org/dwm
TODO: implement monitor switching correctly for holdbar, currently switching monitor hangs, presumably an issue with showselmon or possibly pertag patches:wq
for use with the ly display manager, copy dwm.desktop to /usr/share/xsessions/
create a bash script at ~/.config/startup to launch background processes
relies on:
- kitty
- st
- mpd
use my configuration of dwmblocks to display system status info and date/time in the bar
dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
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
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.h and (re)compiling the source code.