dwm - dynamic window manager

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

See this link for the original source/creators of dwm.

Requirements

-Xlib header files are required to build dwm.

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 the end of 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)

Status bar

The status bar is set with xsetroot -name "$status".

An example script exists in the scripts directory.

It is recommended to add these to your PATH - for example, I've created $HOME/.local/bin and added it to my path in $HOME/.xprofile. Then, in $HOME/.xinitrc, I have the line dwmbar & before exec dwm.