X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?p=dwm.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=c38b3d33d29317b92bf02fcdb362a0dc79dc22b5;hp=883ddd1832534efead6c3629fadf8dfd5844327a;hb=HEAD;hpb=b515765216c46246358256da6098ea2c07a93c84

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@@ -1,6 +1,40 @@
-dwm - dynamic window manager
-----------------------------
-dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
+JasonWoof's fork of dwm - dynamic window manager
+================================================
+dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
+
+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
@@ -16,9 +50,11 @@ 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 +72,14 @@ 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:
 
-    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 editing config.h.
+The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
+and (re)compiling the source code.