dwm - dynamic window manager

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

My Keybindings

Keybinding	Action
`MODKEY + Keypad Insert`	opens run launcher (dmenu)
`MODKEY + Enter`	opens terminal (st)
`MODKEY + j`	focus stack +1
`MODKEY + k`	focus stack -1
`MODKEY + SHIFT + j`	rotate stack +1
`MODKEY + SHIFT + k`	rotate stack -1
`MODKEY + ,`	focusmon -1
`MODKEY + .`	focusmon +1
`MODKEY + h`	setmfact -0.05 (decreases window width)
`MODKEY + l`	setmfact +0.05 (increases window width)

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.

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

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.