dwm - dynamic window manager

dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. This is my own fork of the window manager.

Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files and Xrender libraries.

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:

make 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.

To autostart programs, create the ´~/.config/dwm´ directory and create a shell script which launches all of the programs you want to run at start.

Contributors and Special Thanks

• https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/colorbar/
• https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/fullgaps/
• https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/systray/
• https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/alpha/
• https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/extrabar/
• nggit - https://github.com/nggit (autostart patch)
• If you're the one who made the volume/brightness control thing, please get in touch ASAṔ. I forgot who made it. These are the list of people