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dwm - dynamic window manager

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

Requirements

  • In order to build this dwm you need the Xlib header files.
  • Also make sure to install SymbolNerdFontMono from NerdFonts

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

If you are going to use the default bluegray color scheme it is highly recommended to also install the bluegray files shipped in the dextra package.

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

NixOs

To use dwm on NixOS, you can add the following line to your configuration.nix:

services.xserver.windowManager.dwm.enable = true;

To provide the path to your dwm source code, add the following overlay in your configuration.nix:

nixpkgs.overlays = [
  (final: prev: {
    dwm = prev.dwm.overrideAttrs (old: { src = /path/to/your/dwm/source/code; });
  })
];

Every time you want to recompile your dwm source code after making a change to it, you can simply run sudo nixos-rebuild switch, and on the next reboot, you will have your recompiled dwm ready to use.

Configuration

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.

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