nowisdwm

Dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. And this nowislewis’s version of dwm with a lot of patches.

Please choose release branch for daily use:

git checkout release

Branch Description:

• release is the one you should use, which is the result of merging dev with the patched versions.
• master branch is in sync with the originaldwm project at https://git.suckless.org/dwm .
• dev is the branch of all development work, you may track this branch to see basic customization for dwm.
• other branches are just patches.

Requirements

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).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running dwm

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

Configuration

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