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@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@ -dwm - dynamic window manager ----------------------------- -dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. +dmenu - dynamic menu +-------------------- +dwm is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window +System. Requirements ------------ -In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. +In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files. Installation @@ -13,36 +14,18 @@ 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 +Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dmenu (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 do something -like this in your .xinitrc: - - while true - do - echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` - sleep 1 - done | dwm +Running dmenu +------------- +See the man page for details. Configuration ------------- -The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h +The configuration of dmenu is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code. |