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@@ -2,50 +2,12 @@ dwm - dynamic window manager ============================ dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. +This dwm version has a few patches applied to it: -Requirements ------------- -In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. +* [tab+pertag](http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/tab) +* [statuscolors](http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/statuscolors) +* [xft](http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/xft) +The patch files are here only for reference, I patched dwm.c manually after the first patch. -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 - -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 ------------ -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. +I also put in a boolean in config.h for choosing whether the client title is displayed in the status bar. The included status bar script is based on [w0ng's](https://github.com/w0ng/bin/blob/master/dwm-statusbar) and relies on a [custom font](https://github.com/epedroni/dvicons). |