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| author | Filip Wandzio <contact@philw.dev> | 2025-12-28 02:37:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Filip Wandzio <contact@philw.dev> | 2025-12-28 02:37:34 +0100 |
| commit | 11b1ff4691ff3e0f8346e7431fa3f90cc846fc5d (patch) | |
| tree | b060040013c6023e547f1afde6c5d52b5e945f94 /README.md | |
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Add hot restart patch
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| 1 | dwm - dynamic window manager | 1 | ## Installation |
| 2 | ============================ | ||
| 3 | dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | Requirements | ||
| 7 | ------------ | ||
| 8 | In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. | ||
| 9 | |||
| 10 | |||
| 11 | Installation | ||
| 12 | ------------ | 2 | ------------ |
| 13 | Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into | 3 | Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into |
| 14 | the /usr/local namespace by default). | 4 | the /usr/local namespace by default). |
| @@ -16,33 +6,37 @@ the /usr/local namespace by default). | |||
| 16 | Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if | 6 | Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if |
| 17 | necessary as root): | 7 | necessary as root): |
| 18 | 8 | ||
| 9 | ```bash | ||
| 19 | make clean install | 10 | make clean install |
| 11 | ``` | ||
| 20 | 12 | ||
| 21 | 13 | ## Running dwm | |
| 22 | Running dwm | ||
| 23 | ----------- | ||
| 24 | Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: | 14 | Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx: |
| 25 | 15 | ```bash | |
| 26 | exec dwm | 16 | exec dwm |
| 17 | ``` | ||
| 27 | 18 | ||
| 28 | In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that | 19 | In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that |
| 29 | the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: | 20 | the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: |
| 30 | 21 | ||
| 22 | ```bash | ||
| 31 | DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm | 23 | DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm |
| 32 | 24 | ``` | |
| 33 | (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.) | ||
| 34 | |||
| 35 | In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something | 25 | In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something |
| 36 | like this in your .xinitrc: | 26 | like this in your .xinitrc: |
| 37 | 27 | ||
| 38 | while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" | 28 | ```bash |
| 29 | while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" | ||
| 39 | do | 30 | do |
| 40 | sleep 1 | 31 | sleep 1 |
| 41 | done & | 32 | done & |
| 42 | exec dwm | 33 | exec dwm |
| 34 | ``` | ||
| 43 | 35 | ||
| 44 | 36 | ## Configuration | |
| 45 | Configuration | ||
| 46 | ------------- | ||
| 47 | The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h | 37 | The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h |
| 48 | and (re)compiling the source code. | 38 | and (re)compiling the source code. |
| 39 | |||
| 40 | ## Additional resources | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 | Restart patch pulled from (gist.github.org/bpsuntrup)[bpsuntrup's gist] | ||
