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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

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
-----------
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.
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/* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */

/* appearance */
#define BARPOS			BarTop /* BarBot, BarOff */
#define BORDERPX		1
#define FONT			"-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
#define NORMBORDERCOLOR		"#dddddd"
#define NORMBGCOLOR		"#eeeeee"
#define NORMFGCOLOR		"#222222"
#define SELBORDERCOLOR		"#ff0000"
#define SELBGCOLOR		"#006699"
#define SELFGCOLOR		"#ffffff"

/* tagging */
#define TAGS \
const char *tags[] = { "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", NULL };
/* Query class:instance:title for regex matching info with following command:
 * xprop | awk -F '"' '/^WM_CLASS/ { printf("%s:%s:",$4,$2) }; /^WM_NAME/ { printf("%s\n",$2) }' */
#define RULES \
static Rule rule[] = { \
	/* class:instance:title regex	tags regex	isfloating */ \
	{ "Gimp",			NULL,		True }, \
	{ "MPlayer",			NULL,		True }, \
	{ "Acroread",			NULL,		True }, \
};

/* layout(s) */
void tile(const char *arg);		/* arranges all windows tiled */
#define LAYOUTS \
static Layout layout[] = { \
	/* symbol		function */ \
	{ "[]=",		tile }, /* first entry is default */ \
	{ "><>",		floating }, \
};
#define MASTER			0.6	/* 0.1 .. 0.9 */
#define SNAP			32	/* snap pixel */

/* key definitions */
#define MODKEY			Mod1Mask
#define KEYS \
static Key key[] = { \
	/* modifier			key		function	argument */ \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_Return,	spawn,		"exec xterm" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_p,		spawn, 		"exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu` && exec $exe" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_space,	setlayout,	NULL }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_b,		togglebar,	NULL }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_h,		tile,		"-0.05" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_j,		focusclient,	"1" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_k,		focusclient,	"-1" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_l,		tile,		"0.05" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_m,		togglemax,	NULL }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_Return,	zoom,		NULL }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_space,	togglefloating,	NULL }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_c,		killclient,	NULL }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_0,		view,		NULL }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_1,		view,		"0" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_2,		view,		"1" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_3,		view,		"2" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_4,		view,		"3" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_5,		view,		"4" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_6,		view,		"5" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_7,		view,		"6" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_8,		view,		"7" }, \
	{ MODKEY,			XK_9,		view,		"8" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,		XK_1,		toggleview,	"0" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,		XK_2,		toggleview,	"1" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,		XK_3,		toggleview,	"2" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,		XK_4,		toggleview,	"3" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,		XK_5,		toggleview,	"4" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,		XK_6,		toggleview,	"5" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,		XK_7,		toggleview,	"6" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,		XK_8,		toggleview,	"7" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,		XK_9,		toggleview,	"8" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_0,		tag,		NULL }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_1,		tag,		"0" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_2,		tag,		"1" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_3,		tag,		"2" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_4,		tag,		"3" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_5,		tag,		"4" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_6,		tag,		"5" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_7,		tag,		"6" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_8,		tag,		"7" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_9,		tag,		"8" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask,	XK_1,		toggletag,	"0" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask,	XK_2,		toggletag,	"1" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask,	XK_3,		toggletag,	"2" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask,	XK_4,		toggletag,	"3" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask,	XK_5,		toggletag,	"4" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask,	XK_6,		toggletag,	"5" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask,	XK_7,		toggletag,	"6" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask,	XK_8,		toggletag,	"7" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask,	XK_9,		toggletag,	"8" }, \
	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,		XK_q,		quit,		NULL }, \
};