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

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

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

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

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

Below is a list of custom key bindings set up in the dwm window manager's config.h file.

• Super + p: Launch dmenu (application launcher)
• Super + Shift + Enter: Open terminal (st)
• Super + e, Super + e: Open terminal (st)
• Super + a, a: Launch alacritty terminal

• Super + b: Toggle status bar
• Super + j: Focus next window
• Super + k: Focus previous window
• Super + h: Decrease master area size
• Super + l: Increase master area size
• Super + Enter: Zoom/cycle focused window to/from master area
• Super + Shift + j: Rotate stack forwards
• Super + Shift + k: Rotate stack backwards
• Super + i: Increase number of master windows
• Super + d: Decrease number of master windows
• Super + Shift + c: Close focused window
• Super + Space: Toggle between current and previous layout
• Super + Shift + Space: Toggle focused window between floating and tiling
• Super + Tab: Switch to the last viewed tag

• Super + t: Set layout to tiling
• Super + f: Set layout to floating
• Super + m: Set layout to monocle (fullscreen)

• Super + comma: Focus on the left monitor
• Super + period: Focus on the right monitor
• Super + Shift + comma: Send focused window to the left monitor
• Super + Shift + period: Send focused window to the right monitor

• Super + (1-9): View tag (1-9)
• Super + Shift + (1-9): Assign focused window to tag (1-9)
• Super + Control + (1-9): Toggle tag (1-9) view
• Super + Control + Shift + (1-9): Toggle assign window to tag (1-9)

• Super + a, 1, (0-3): Switch to tags 10-13
• Super + w, 1, 2: Move focused window to tag 12

• Super + Shift + q: Quit dwm
• Super + Shift + r: Restart dwm without quitting