JasonWoof's fork of dwm - dynamic window manager ================================================ dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. JasonWoof's modifications include: 1. A new layout that's kinda like deck, but there's a little space above and below the main slave window where you can see (a little bit of) the other slave windows. 2. When you've got only 1 window in a workspace: by default, it is in the master area. A new tag/attribute is used to specify windows that should use all available space when alone. This results in fewer window resizes, and is nice for applications which are usually not so nice when they're huge (eg firefox, mutt). 3. _NET_WM_OPACITY is set. Run xcompmgr or the like, so you can see which window has focus. (Non-zero width borders are probably broken in this fork) 4. Terminals are spawned with environmental variable containing the current workspace number. This can be used to eg have separate shell history per workspace, and/or make terminals stay in their correct workspaces accross dwm restarts. 5. New windows open to the right (clockwise) of the focused window. Closing the focused window focuses the window to its left (counter-clockwise). This achieves both: 1. After closing a window, focus goes where you expect (it's consistent, and you don't have to remember what was focused before to predict correctly.) 2. When you open a window, and then close it, focus goes back to where it was originally. And an added bonus: The master window doesn't move around or change size when you open or close other windows. Requirements ------------ 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). Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if necessary as root): make clean install If you are going to use the default bluegray color scheme it is highly recommended to also install the bluegray files shipped in the dextra package. 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.