dwm - dynamic window manager

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

Patches

• fibonacci adds spiral and dwindle layouts
• actualfullscreen actually fullscreen window instead of toggling status bar and monocle layout
• alwaysfullscreen do not allow focus to drift from active fullscreen client
• sticky enables client to be visible on all tags
• systray adds a systray
• warp warps mouse cursor to center of focused window
• pertag keeps layout, mwfact, barpos, nmaster per tag
• gaps adds runtime resizable, useless gaps
• open floating centered opens floating windows in the center of the screen
• save floats saves size and position of every floating window

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.