X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?p=dwm.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7abf1cfc4381af9eabdd8b1c10a9f5fe50320863;hp=f7721cfc2e470fd03aa8eefb516164e0b80797d9;hb=7fb0771af631512715ee98315ac2382d1730b3d5;hpb=7b5638f61d5c8b5a76bc3f7a5962cb7490da3b6b diff --git a/README b/README index f7721cf..7abf1cf 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 @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ 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 ----------- @@ -30,22 +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.) -Displaying status info ----------------------- In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something like this in your .xinitrc: - while true + while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" do - echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` - sleep 1 - done | dwm + sleep 1 + done & + exec dwm Configuration ------------- -The configuration of dwm is done by customizing its source code -(grep for the CUSTOMIZE keyword). +The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h +and (re)compiling the source code.