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dwm - dynamic window manager
============================
my configuration of dwm, an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
this is an attempt to combine the ideas of dynamic tiling window management with the ux/ergonomic considerations of the infamous "why tiling window managers suck" [rant](http://xahlee.info/linux/why_tiling_window_manager_sucks.html).
Objectives: simple, ergonomic, reasonable
Goals:
- Use more of a tagging approach instead of abusing tags as traditional workspaces
- Get rid of key chords
- Remove modifiers for most used actions. Use F1-12 keys instead.
- Maybe keep vim-style keybindings for moving and orientation
- Switch to sticky keys/key sequences wherever not possible to completely remove modifier
- Use only thumbs for modifiers, never use the pinkys!
- Automate my most used actions and workflows
- tag all relevant clients automatically, handle popups and floating clients correctly
- predefined layouts
- functions to superimpose browser or mail client into current tag
- Practical
- provide systray so we can out-source wifi/bluetooth/volume management and not fiddle with shellscripts
- include all patches that deal with broken software
- Distinctive, easy-to-read colorscheme based on Tango color palette
- One-click install: status script and xsession launch script included
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.