-gridwm
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+JasonWoof's fork of dwm - dynamic window manager
+================================================
+dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
-gridwm is an extremly fast, small, and automatic X11 window manager. It
-arranges all windows in a grid.
+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
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-In order to build gridwm you need the Xlib header files.
+In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
Installation
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-Edit config.mk to match your local setup. gridwm 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 gridwm (if
+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 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 gridwm
+ 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.
+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
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-The configuration of gridwm is done by customizing the config.h source file. To
-customize the key bindings edit kb.c. To change the status output, edit the
-status command definition in wm.c.
-
+The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
+and (re)compiling the source code.
Got questions, comments, patches, etc.? Contact Jason Woofenden