davidpkj’s dynamic window manager
Added feautres:
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Center title
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Layout cycling (tiled, tabbed, floating)
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Xresources utilization
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XF86 Keys utilization
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Always-on-top functionality
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Sticky windows functionality
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Swallowing terminals functionality
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Gaps everywhere
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Inner status bar padding
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Tags have own layouts
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Fancy and functional tabbed bar
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Movable child windows
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 installRunning dwm
Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
exec dwmIn 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 dwmConfiguration
The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.