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

Requirements

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.

Applied patches are tagged with patch-<patchname> in the commit history.

446b3be | preserveonstart : Preserves the client tags upon restart. However, the layout order is not preserved.
99bbb42 | noborder : Remove the border when there is only one window visible.
0e02c04 | systray : A simple system tray implementation.
f8bef23 | statuscmd : Signal a status monitor program the location, and the button when clicking on the status bar.
7501e9a | hide_vacant_tags : Only draw tags that have clients on the status bar.