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dwm - dynamic window manager

dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X made by the suckless guys

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Building

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

To compile: sudo make clean install

Running dwm

To run dwm you have to add exec dwm to .xinitrc and then run startx.

Features

This fork has some cool features like:

  • Focusing/pushing windows relative to their position (focusdir and pushdir)
  • Systray
  • Replacement bar to put whatever you want
  • Change colors through xresources
  • Change the default attacment method on the fly

Replacement Bar

You can place whatever text you want on the replacement bar by changing the xroot name.

Example: xsetroot -name "bar1 left;bar2 right;bar2 left"

You can change the separator in config.h

Attachment Methods

There are 2 attachment methods by default, attachdefault and attachbottom.

You can change them on the fly by using cycledirection, mapped to MOD + s by default.

Configuration

Configuring dwm is made by editing config.h

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