dwm - dynamic window manager

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

Requirements

You'll need the Xlib header files and suckless-tools.

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

To get the fonts working, download the fonts from my dotfiles repo. Then add these lines to your .xinitrc (replacing ${FONTDIR} with the directory you placed the fonts):

xset +fp ${FONTDIR}
xset fp rehash

You need to run mkfontdir and possibly mkfontscale in ${FONTDIR} as well.

Running dwm

In order to set dwm as a login session, add a .desktop file for dwm to /usr/share/xsessions/.

Run dwm to start dwm with startx.

In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something like this:

while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
do
	sleep 1
done &
exec dwm

I've included my own statusbar in this repo.