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


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 true
    do
        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`
        sleep 1
    done | dwm


Configuration
-------------
The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.
Name.Property */ .highlight .nt { color: #bb0066; font-weight: bold } /* Name.Tag */ .highlight .nv { color: #336699 } /* Name.Variable */ .highlight .ow { color: #008800 } /* Operator.Word */ .highlight .w { color: #bbbbbb } /* Text.Whitespace */ .highlight .mb { color: #0000DD; font-weight: bold } /* Literal.Number.Bin */ .highlight .mf { color: #0000DD; font-weight: bold } /* Literal.Number.Float */ .highlight .mh { color: #0000DD; font-weight: bold } /* Literal.Number.Hex */ .highlight .mi { color: #0000DD; font-weight: bold } /* Literal.Number.Integer */ .highlight .mo { color: #0000DD; font-weight: bold } /* Literal.Number.Oct */ .highlight .sa { color: #dd2200; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Affix */ .highlight .sb { color: #dd2200; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Backtick */ .highlight .sc { color: #dd2200; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Char */ .highlight .dl { color: #dd2200; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Delimiter */ .highlight .sd { color: #dd2200; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Doc */ .highlight .s2 { color: #dd2200; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Double */ .highlight .se { color: #0044dd; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Escape */ .highlight .sh { color: #dd2200; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Heredoc */ .highlight .si { color: #3333bb; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Interpol */ .highlight .sx { color: #22bb22; background-color: #f0fff0 } /* Literal.String.Other */ .highlight .sr { color: #008800; background-color: #fff0ff } /* Literal.String.Regex */ .highlight .s1 { color: #dd2200; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Single */ .highlight .ss { color: #aa6600; background-color: #fff0f0 } /* Literal.String.Symbol */ .highlight .bp { color: #003388 } /* Name.Builtin.Pseudo */ .highlight .fm { color: #0066bb; font-weight: bold } /* Name.Function.Magic */ .highlight .vc { color: #336699 } /* Name.Variable.Class */ .highlight .vg { color: #dd7700 } /* Name.Variable.Global */ .highlight .vi { color: #3333bb } /* Name.Variable.Instance */ .highlight .vm { color: #336699 } /* Name.Variable.Magic */ .highlight .il { color: #0000DD; font-weight: bold } /* Literal.Number.Integer.Long */
/* (C)opyright MMVI-MMVII Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam at gmail dot com>
 * See LICENSE file for license details.
 *
 * dynamic window manager is designed like any other X client as well. It is
 * driven through handling X events. In contrast to other X clients, a window
 * manager selects for SubstructureRedirectMask on the root window, to receive
 * events about window (dis-)appearance.  Only one X connection at a time is
 * allowed to select for this event mask.
 *
 * Calls to fetch an X event from the event queue are blocking.  Due reading
 * status text from standard input, a select()-driven main loop has been
 * implemented which selects for reads on the X connection and STDIN_FILENO to
 * handle all data smoothly. The event handlers of dwm are organized in an
 * array which is accessed whenever a new event has been fetched. This allows
 * event dispatching in O(1) time.
 *
 * Each child of the root window is called a client, except windows which have
 * set the override_redirect flag.  Clients are organized in a global
 * doubly-linked client list, the focus history is remembered through a global
 * stack list. Each client contains an array of Bools of the same size as the
 * global tags array to indicate the tags of a client.  For each client dwm
 * creates a small title window, which is resized whenever the (_NET_)WM_NAME
 * properties are updated or the client is moved/resized.
 *
 * Keys and tagging rules are organized as arrays and defined in the config.h
 * file. These arrays are kept static in event.o and tag.o respectively,
 * because no other part of dwm needs access to them.  The current mode is
 * represented by the arrange() function pointer, which wether points to
 * dofloat() or dotile(). 
 *
 * To understand everything else, start reading main.c:main().
 */

#include "config.h"
#include <X11/Xlib.h>

/* mask shorthands, used in event.c and client.c */
#define BUTTONMASK		(ButtonPressMask | ButtonReleaseMask)
/* other stuff used in different places */
#define BORDERPX		1
#define PROTODELWIN		1

enum { NetSupported, NetWMName, NetLast };		/* EWMH atoms */
enum { WMProtocols, WMDelete, WMLast };			/* default atoms */
enum { CurNormal, CurResize, CurMove, CurLast };	/* cursor */
enum { ColBorder, ColFG, ColBG, ColLast };		/* color */

typedef enum {
	TopLeft, TopRight, BotLeft, BotRight
} Corner; /* window corners */

typedef union {
	const char *cmd;
	int i;
} Arg; /* argument type */

typedef struct {
	int ascent;
	int descent;
	int height;
	XFontSet set;
	XFontStruct *xfont;
} Fnt;

typedef struct {
	int x, y, w, h;
	unsigned long norm[ColLast];
	unsigned long sel[ColLast];
	Drawable drawable;
	Fnt font;
	GC gc;
} DC; /* draw context */

typedef struct Client Client;
struct Client {
	char name[256];
	int proto;
	int x, y, w, h;
	int rx, ry, rw, rh; /* revert geometry */
	int basew, baseh, incw, inch, maxw, maxh, minw, minh;
	long flags; 
	unsigned int border;
	Bool isfloat, isfixed, ismax;
	Bool *tags;
	Client *next;
	Client *prev;
	Client *snext;
	Window win;
};

extern const char *tags[];			/* all tags */
extern char stext[256];				/* status text */
extern int bx, by, bw, bh, bmw;			/* bar geometry, bar mode label width */
extern int screen, sx, sy, sw, sh;		/* screen geometry */
extern int wax, way, wah, waw;			/* windowarea geometry */
extern unsigned int master, nmaster;		/* master percent, number of master clients */
extern unsigned int ntags, numlockmask;		/* number of tags, dynamic lock mask */
extern void (*handler[LASTEvent])(XEvent *);	/* event handler */
extern void (*arrange)(void);			/* arrange function, indicates mode  */
extern Atom wmatom[WMLast], netatom[NetLast];
extern Bool running, issel, *seltag;		/* seltag is array of Bool */
extern Client *clients, *sel, *stack;		/* global client list and stack */
extern Cursor cursor[CurLast];
extern DC dc;					/* global draw context */
extern Display *dpy;
extern Window root, barwin;

/* client.c */
extern void configure(Client *c);		/* send synthetic configure event */
extern void focus(Client *c);			/* focus c, c may be NULL */
extern Client *getclient(Window w);		/* return client of w */
extern void killclient(Arg *arg);		/* kill c nicely */
extern void manage(Window w, XWindowAttributes *wa);	/* manage new client */
extern void resize(Client *c, Bool sizehints, Corner sticky); /* resize c*/
extern void updatesizehints(Client *c);		/* update the size hint variables of c */
extern void updatetitle(Client *c);		/* update the name of c */
extern void unmanage(Client *c);		/* destroy c */

/* draw.c */
extern void drawstatus(void);			/* draw the bar */
extern unsigned long getcolor(const char *colstr);	/* return color of colstr */
extern void setfont(const char *fontstr);	/* set the font for DC */
extern unsigned int textw(const char *text);	/* return the width of text in px*/

/* event.c */
extern void grabkeys(void);			/* grab all keys defined in config.h */
extern void procevent(void);			/* process pending X events */

/* main.c */
extern int getproto(Window w);			/* return protocol mask of WMProtocols property of w */
extern void quit(Arg *arg);			/* quit dwm nicely */
extern void sendevent(Window w, Atom a, long value);	/* send synthetic event to w */
extern int xerror(Display *dsply, XErrorEvent *ee);	/* dwm's X error handler */

/* tag.c */
extern void initrregs(void);			/* initialize regexps of rules defined in config.h */
extern Client *getnext(Client *c);		/* returns next visible client */
extern Client *getprev(Client *c);		/* returns previous visible client */
extern void settags(Client *c, Client *trans);	/* sets tags of c */
extern void tag(Arg *arg);			/* tags c with arg's index */
extern void toggletag(Arg *arg);		/* toggles c tags with arg's index */

/* util.c */
extern void *emallocz(unsigned int size);	/* allocates zero-initialized memory, exits on error */
extern void eprint(const char *errstr, ...);	/* prints errstr and exits with 1 */
extern void *erealloc(void *ptr, unsigned int size);	/* reallocates memory, exits on error */
extern void spawn(Arg *arg);			/* forks a new subprocess with to arg's cmd */

/* view.c */
extern void detach(Client *c);			/* detaches c from global client list */
extern void dofloat(void);			/* arranges all windows floating */
extern void dotile(void);			/* arranges all windows tiled */
extern void focusnext(Arg *arg);		/* focuses next visible client, arg is ignored  */
extern void focusprev(Arg *arg);		/* focuses previous visible client, arg is ignored */
extern void incnmaster(Arg *arg);		/* increments nmaster with arg's index value */
extern Bool isvisible(Client *c);		/* returns True if client is visible */
extern void resizemaster(Arg *arg);		/* resizes the master percent with arg's index value */
extern void restack(void);			/* restores z layers of all clients */
extern void togglefloat(Arg *arg);		/* toggles focusesd client between floating/non-floating state */
extern void togglemode(Arg *arg);		/* toggles global arrange function (dotile/dofloat) */
extern void toggleview(Arg *arg);		/* toggles the tag with arg's index (in)visible */
extern void view(Arg *arg);			/* views the tag with arg's index */
extern void zoom(Arg *arg);			/* zooms the focused client to master area, arg is ignored */