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| dwm - dynamic window manager | dwm - dynamic window manager | ||||||
| ---------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ||||||
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| dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. | dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. | ||||||
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| @ -34,6 +33,23 @@ the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: | |||||||
| This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. | This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. | ||||||
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|  | Displaying status info | ||||||
|  | ---------------------- | ||||||
|  | In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following | ||||||
|  | in .xinitrc: | ||||||
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|  |     $HOME/.dwm/status | dwm | ||||||
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 | ||||||
|  | Assumed $HOME/.dwm/status is an executable script like: | ||||||
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 | ||||||
|  |     #!/bin/sh | ||||||
|  |     while true | ||||||
|  |     do | ||||||
|  |         echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` | ||||||
|  |         sleep 5 | ||||||
|  |     done | ||||||
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| Configuration | Configuration | ||||||
| ------------- | ------------- | ||||||
| The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code, | The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code, | ||||||
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