dwm - dynamic window manager

About dwm

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

Requirements

In order to build dwm you need:

• Xlib header files

Patches and features

The folowing features have been added:

• status2d with systemtray
• gaps across all layouts
• Reads xresources - pywall compatible :)
  • dwm.color4 = selfgcolor
  • dwm.color14 = selbordercolor
• automaticaly hides unused tags
• cycle tags via shiftview

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 (if necessary as root):

    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.h and (re)compiling the source code.