X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=c6d3ae6c6628fee61a3d55c1d8c103853d49111c;hb=2b66f7afb1040c1dd8869ce335dc960751f9469a;hp=c766f1bd13651405a226ad55b738d420be9bad9b;hpb=1076f2b6b3d3751d5d5db6fcb9ac8c247e04e893;p=dwm.git diff --git a/README b/README index c766f1b..c6d3ae6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,40 +1,50 @@ -gridwm ------- - -gridwm is an automatic X11 window manager which arranges all windows in a grid. +dwm - dynamic window manager +---------------------------- +dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. Requirements ------------ -In order to build gridwm you need the Xlib header files. +In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. Installation ------------ -Edit config.mk to match your local setup. gridwm is installed into +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 gridwm (if +Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if necessary as root): make clean install -Running gridwm --------------- -Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start gridwm using startx: +Running dwm +----------- +Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: - exec gridwm + exec dwm -In order to connect gridwm to a specific display, make sure that +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 wmii + DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm + +This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. + -This will start gridwm 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: + while true + do + echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` + sleep 5 + done | dwm Configuration ------------- -The configuration of gridwm is done by customizing the config.h -source file. +The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code, +grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.