Pigges's build of DWM

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

Patches

• Vanitygaps
• Swallow
• Hide Vacant Tags

Some patches are rewritten or modified to work together.

Requirements

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

Installation

sudo make clean install

Running dwm

Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:

exec dwm

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.