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


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

Xlib header files
     These header files can be installed with
         sudo apt install libxft-dev libx11-dev libxinerama-dev
For transparency both a wallpaper setter and a compositor is neccesary
    the packages used by this fork can be installed with
        sudo apt install compton nitrogen
        note: nitrogen needs to be used at least once to set a wallpaper
This fork uses scrot for screenshots which can configured using
    sudo apt install scrot && mkdir ~/screenshots

Installation
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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
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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
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.

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