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Added features:
- Alpha patch                   unsigned int baralpha in config.h to determine bar transparency
- Fibonacci patch
- Handling the poweroff key
- Rotate stack patch
- Full gaps patch
- Before naming client window as 'broken' when WM_NAME is empty try using WM_CLASS first
- Cooperate with st (using signals) and handle spawning st with current shell pwd as working dir

For alpha patch to work the xcompmgr or sth similar needs to be running in the background.


Original README:


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.


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.