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dwm - dynamic window manager
----------------------------
dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.


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/.*://; s/,//g'`
        sleep 1
    done | dwm


Configuration
-------------
The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.
IBS} CFLAGS = -g -Wall -O2 -I. -I${PREFIX}/include -I/usr/include -I${X11INC} \ -DVERSION=\"${VERSION}\" LDFLAGS = -g ${LIBS} # Solaris #CFLAGS = -fast -xtarget=ultra ${INCLUDES} -DVERSION=\"${VERSION}\" #LIBS += -lnsl -lsocket AR = ar cr CC = cc RANLIB = ranlib