dwm - dynamic window manager

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

dwm version: 6.1

See suckless commit: 35db6d8afc3fd9f80166feac6c1e4adf71d553c3

Patches Applied

Total Patches Applied: 18 Patches

Git apply : 6 Patches

Manually Patched : 12 Patches

For more information on which patches are applied please see dwm-patches

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

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.

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.