dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. This is a heaviliy patched dwm that fits pretty much all the tasks I need from a window manager.

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

Simply clone it and build. e.g.,

$ git clone https://github.com/allinurl/dwm.git && cd dwm
$ make
# make install

Install bitmap fonts

$ git clone https://github.com/stark/siji && cd siji
$ ./install.sh -d ~/.fonts

Place your .xinitrc in your home directory. See my dotfiles repo.

$ cd
$ wget https://github.com/allinurl/dotfiles/blob/master/.xinitrc

And you're good to go at this point.

$ startx

Enjoy!

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code. Take a look at the config.h if you are interested to change some of the key bindings. Though, you should have enough flexibility with the current setup.

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