rnsavinelli's build of dwm - dynamic window manager

dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.

This fork of dwm has my personal configurations, some patches and modifications.

Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.

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):

git clone https://github.com/rnsavinelli/dwm
cd dwm
make clean install

Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:

exec dwm

In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that 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.)

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

For a better solution consider using my build of slstatus: https://github.com/rnsavinelli/slstatus

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.