dwt1--dotfiles/dwm/README.md

My dwm (Dynamic Window Manager) build

Dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. This is my personal build of dwm. I used a number of patches in this build to make dwm more "sensible" rather than "suckless."

My Keybindings

The MODKEY is set to the Super key (aka the Windows key). I try to keep the keybindings consistent with all of my window managers.

Keybinding	Action
MODKEY + RETURN	opens terminal (alacritty is the terminal but can be easily changed)
MODKEY + SHIFT + RETURN	opens run launcher (dmenu is the run launcher but can be easily changed)
MODKEY + SHIFT + c	closes window with focus
MODKEY + SHIFT + r	restarts dwm
MODKEY + SHIFT + q	quits dwm
MODKEY + 1-9	switch focus to workspace (1-9)
MODKEY + SHIFT + 1-9	send focused window to workspace (1-9)
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 (expands size of window)
MODKEY + l	setmfact +0.05 (shrinks size of window)
MODKEY + .	focusmon +1 (switches focus next monitors)
MODKEY + ,	focusmon -1 (switches focus to prev monitors)

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.