README

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


Requirements
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In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.


Installation
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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
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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
        xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
        sleep 1
    done &
    exec dwm


Configuration
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.

About this fork on git-hub
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Features have been added to dwm in form of patches on top of their hg-tip. So 
it's hard to follow the development and get the new features in form of patches 
over time. So I'm keeping a fork for myself. Feel free to use it if it eases
your work.

I've incorporated following patches:

    * bottom stack
    * fancycoloredbarclickable
    * fibonacci
    * movestack
    * nametag
    * nmaster

There are some patches which I won't apply at all, so you're on your own! If they
conflict with this branch, you better get ready to get your hands dirty.

    * fancybar
    * pertag
    * statuscolors
    * transparency
    * urgentborder