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      1 This is my current configuration of DWM. Please note, if you are 
      2 recreating this then you will likely of benefit by adding the 
      3 following to your .xinitrc file so you are able to reload on the 
      4 fly without killing your xsession and losing all windows.
      5 
      6 ```
      7 while type dwm >/dev/null ; do dwm && continue || break ; done
      8 ```
      9 
     10 
     11 dwm - dynamic window manager
     12 ============================
     13 dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
     14 
     15 
     16 Requirements
     17 ------------
     18 In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
     19 
     20 
     21 Installation
     22 ------------
     23 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
     24 the /usr/local namespace by default).
     25 
     26 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
     27 necessary as root):
     28 
     29     make clean install
     30 
     31 
     32 Running dwm
     33 -----------
     34 Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
     35 
     36     exec dwm
     37 
     38 In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
     39 the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
     40 
     41     DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
     42 
     43 (This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
     44 
     45 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
     46 like this in your .xinitrc:
     47 
     48     while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
     49     do
     50     	sleep 1
     51     done &
     52     exec dwm
     53 
     54 
     55 Configuration
     56 -------------
     57 The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
     58 and (re)compiling the source code.