X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?p=dwm.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=2e14579248b91bf06f88e20f63082de679fc47d5;hp=883ddd1832534efead6c3629fadf8dfd5844327a;hb=57a0788bd880809dcfa09c597fb29a19c8db7ed2;hpb=b515765216c46246358256da6098ea2c07a93c84 diff --git a/README b/README index 883ddd1..2e14579 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 @@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ the /usr/local namespace by default). 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 ----------- @@ -36,13 +38,15 @@ the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something like this in your .xinitrc: + dwm & while true do - echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` + xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" sleep 1 - done | dwm + done 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.