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

This fork incorporates some of the patches published on suckless.org
and in the future some other custom features may be added.

Added features so far:

  1. Scratchpad
  2. Alpha Transparency
  3. cfacts
  4. bottomstack
  5. window gaps, with centered windows
  6. support for some tweaks via Xresources (see template)
  7. X11 systray support
  8. Misc fixes and tweaks
  9. Draw windows with rounded corners
  10. Better workspaces bar handling (inspired by i3)
  11. Movable top bar
  12. CenteredMaster + CFacts
  13. EWMH Tags
  14. Spiral/Dwindle Layouts
  15. Pango support for the status bar
  16. Miscellaneous fixes here and there


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


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 xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
    do
    	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.

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