dwm - dynamic window manager

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

Requirements

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

My build (by default) requires dmenu, alacritty (terminal), LibreWolf (browser), PulseAudio, pamixer (audio bindings), and my script powermenu (from jtbx/scripts). Of course, you can change all of this in config.h.

You can install all the dependencies on Arch with this command:

pacman -S xorg-server alacritty pulseaudio pamixer ttf-jetbrains-mono

After this, you still need to decide on a custom build of dmenu, install LibreWolf, and put powermenu from jtbx/scripts in your PATH. Again, you can remove or modify the bindings in config.h if you'd like.

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

Running dwm

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 copy status.sh into your .xinitrc,

or do something like this:

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.