dwm - dynamic window manager

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

This is a fork of https://git.suckless.org/dwm I have applied the following patches to help my workflow.

The following patches have been applied:

• actualfullscreen
• alpha
• autostart
• floatrules
• scratchpads
• swallow

Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. Additionally the swallow patch requires the following libraries

• libxcb
• Xlib-libxcb
• xcb-res

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.