Alamot's DWM - Dynamic Window Manager

This is my version of dwm. DWM is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.

Extra features included in Alamot's DWM:

• Alpha patch (aka transparency)
• Better key assignment (e.g. tags on numpad keys)
• Change keyboard layout using the mouse buttons
• Pertag patch
• Runorraise patch
• Query mouse pointer focus
• Status2d patch
• Systray patch
• Three different clickable ClkStatusText areas (Left/Middle/Right)
• Viewontag patch
• Xft support
• XPM icons/pictures support
• Zoomswap patch

Status bar indicators:

• Keyboard layout (with country flags)
• Load average
• CPU temperature
• Available memory
• Wifi connection status, signal and txrate using the nl80211 interface (with graphic representation)

Requirements

• glibc
• libx11
• libxft
• libfontconfig
• libxpm (for xpm icons/pictures)
• libnl-genl-3.0 (for nl80211 wifi indicator)

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

Copy dwm_start.sh in your home directory and add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:

exec dwm_start.sh

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.)

Configuration

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