dwt1--dotfiles/dwm

My dwm (Dynamic Window Manager) build

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

My Keybindings

The MODKEY is set to the Super key (aka the Windows key)

Keybinding	Action
MODKEY + Keypad Insert	opens run launcher (dmenu is the run launcher but can be easily changed)
MODKEY + Enter	opens terminal (st is the terminal but can be easily changed)
MODKEY + SHIFT + c	closes window with focus
MODKEY + SHIFT + q	quits dwm
MODKEY + j	focus stack +1 (switches focus between windows in the stack)
MODKEY + k	focus stack -1 (switches focus between windows in the stack)
MODKEY + SHIFT + j	rotate stack +1 (rotates the windows in the stack)
MODKEY + SHIFT + k	rotate stack -1 (rotates the windows in the stack)
MODKEY + h	setmfact -0.05 (decreases window width)
MODKEY + l	setmfact +0.05 (increases window width)
MODKEY + ,	focusmon -1 (switches focus between monitors)
MODKEY + .	focusmon +1 (switches focus between monitors)

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 install

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.