X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?p=dwm.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=135c06649c425294e626bb774f0ad8d1340a9716;hp=07bbd086d97076b1a27f09e71fca6c935c268968;hb=9cde6570cce2a0924ab7b7358b09b4cbf644b7b8;hpb=863656d2bcb60b58fd89194cc00e956821e2c204 diff --git a/README b/README index 07bbd08..135c066 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ dwm - dynamic window manager ----------------------------- -dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. +============================ +dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. Requirements @@ -13,12 +13,14 @@ Installation Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default). -Afterwards enter the following commands to build and install dwm (if +Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if necessary as root): - cp config.default.h config.h 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 ----------- @@ -38,11 +40,13 @@ like this in your .xinitrc: while true do - echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` + xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" sleep 1 - done | dwm + done & + exec dwm Configuration ------------- -The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h. +The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h +and (re)compiling the source code.