X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?p=dwm.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7abf1cfc4381af9eabdd8b1c10a9f5fe50320863;hp=c8e24ef89789871f28c8f9c2e136f7704c27d2e6;hb=c0ba635c50dc53f06e4fc96392415b3d19b25826;hpb=650a1fb4e1a798aca48a53739f5bb2649191bc1c diff --git a/README b/README index c8e24ef..7abf1cf 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ -dwm ------- - -dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. +dwm - dynamic window manager +============================ +dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. Requirements @@ -11,17 +10,20 @@ 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. +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 @@ -31,10 +33,19 @@ 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. +(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 customizing the wm.h source file. To -customize the key bindings edit kb.c. +The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h +and (re)compiling the source code.