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.

Directory structure

./poly-dwm/src contains the source files for my fork with polybar support

./vnla-dwm/src contains the source files for my fork without polybar support

Installation

For dwm without polybar support:

make

For dwm with polybar support:

make poly

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

Also install this fork of polybar.

Copy the .dwm folder to your ~

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.

Screenshots

With polybar

Without polybar