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# My dwm (Dynamic Window Manager) build
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Dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. This is my personal build of dwm. I used a number of patches in this build to make dwm more "sensible" rather than "suckless."
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# My Keybindings
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The MODKEY is set to the Super key (aka the Windows key). I try to keep the
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keybindings consistent with all of my window managers.
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| Keybinding | Action |
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| :--- | :--- |
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| `MODKEY + RETURN` | opens terminal (alacritty is the terminal but can be easily changed) |
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| `MODKEY + SHIFT + RETURN` | opens run launcher (dmenu is the run launcher but can be easily changed) |
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| `MODKEY + SHIFT + c` | closes window with focus |
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| `MODKEY + SHIFT + r` | restarts dwm |
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| `MODKEY + SHIFT + q` | quits dwm |
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| `MODKEY + 1-9` | switch focus to workspace (1-9) |
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| `MODKEY + SHIFT + 1-9` | send focused window to workspace (1-9) |
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| `MODKEY + j` | focus stack +1 (switches focus between windows in the stack) |
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| `MODKEY + k` | focus stack -1 (switches focus between windows in the stack) |
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| `MODKEY + SHIFT + j` | rotate stack +1 (rotates the windows in the stack) |
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| `MODKEY + SHIFT + k` | rotate stack -1 (rotates the windows in the stack) |
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| `MODKEY + h` | setmfact -0.05 (expands size of window) |
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| `MODKEY + l` | setmfact +0.05 (shrinks size of window) |
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| `MODKEY + .` | focusmon +1 (switches focus next monitors) |
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| `MODKEY + ,` | focusmon -1 (switches focus to prev monitors) |
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
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necessary as root):
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make clean install
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# Running dwm
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Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
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exec dwm
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In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
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the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
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(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
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In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
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like this in your .xinitrc:
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while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
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do
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sleep 1
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done &
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exec dwm
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# Configuration
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The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
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and (re)compiling the source code.
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