dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
st is installed into the /usr/local
namespace by default(if necessary as root):
make -j clean install
You can change it by setting PREFIX
(for example, install at ~/.local
):
make PREFIX=~/.local -j clean install
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
The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.