1 JasonWoof's fork of dwm - dynamic window manager
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3 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
5 JasonWoof's modifications include:
7 1. A new layout that's kinda like deck, but there's a little space above and
8 below the main slave window where you can see (a little bit of) the other
11 2. When you've got only 1 window in a workspace: by default, it is in the
12 master area. A new tag/attribute is used to specify windows that should use
13 all available space when alone. This results in fewer window resizes, and
14 is nice for applications which are usually not so nice when they're huge
17 3. _NET_WM_OPACITY is set. Run xcompmgr or the like, so you can see which
18 window has focus. (Non-zero width borders are probably broken in this fork)
20 4. Terminals are spawned with environmental variable containing the current
21 workspace number. This can be used to eg have separate shell history per
22 workspace, and/or make terminals stay in their correct workspaces accross
25 5. New windows open to the right (clockwise) of the focused window. Closing
26 the focused window focuses the window to its left (counter-clockwise). This
29 1. After closing a window, focus goes where you expect (it's consistent,
30 and you don't have to remember what was focused before to predict
33 2. When you open a window, and then close it, focus goes back to where it
36 And an added bonus: The master window doesn't move around or change size
37 when you open or close other windows.
42 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
47 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
48 the /usr/local namespace by default).
50 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
55 If you are going to use the default bluegray color scheme it is highly
56 recommended to also install the bluegray files shipped in the dextra package.
61 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
65 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
66 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
68 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
70 (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
72 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
73 like this in your .xinitrc:
75 while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
84 The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
85 and (re)compiling the source code.