X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=8781cd8fb4d2ec5d0da2c4c8b4676e7bd5cb62f3;hb=a73a88280681acdab047bd11a9ba77d97d6a0b72;hp=89f7dba66e037e9cfe036ed81b96753f5079b6a6;hpb=f85b163899a743d29ebdf1d4969e729b3f2cb79c;p=dwm.git diff --git a/README b/README index 89f7dba..8781cd8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ dwm - dynamic window manager ---------------------------- -dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. +dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. Requirements @@ -10,14 +10,19 @@ 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. +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 +If you want to use a customized config.h, you can use the following +command for installing dwm: + + make CONFIG=.h clean install + Running dwm ----------- @@ -35,16 +40,16 @@ This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. Displaying status info ---------------------- -In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following -in .xinitrc: +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 2 + sleep 1 done | dwm + Configuration ------------- -The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code, -grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword. +The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h.