From 7817523a685f0dbba2e074a448099558a54b1b9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "arg@10ksloc.org" Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:35:27 +0200 Subject: initial import --- README | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5915a27 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +dwm - dynamic window manager +---------------------------- +dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. + + +Requirements +------------ +In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. + + +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 true + do + echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` + sleep 1 + done | dwm + + +Configuration +------------- +The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h +and (re)compiling the source code. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf