dwm (Dynamic Window Manager) is a Tiling Window Manager that is simple, elegant and don’t get in your way. The above screenshot is from my dwm setup.
1) Download dwm here.
2) Install the required dependencies:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxinerama-dev sharutils
3) Extract the dwm package you’ve downloaded.
4) If you want to customize the appearance and behavior of dwm, you need to re-compile it, but it is really easy. The customizations are done through theconfig.def.h file. If you don’t want to study the config setup right now, do it later and just grab some config.def.h on the Internet to use as base, or look into my references below for more info. You can grab my custom config as base if you want,here. (Right-Click and “Save link as”)
5) Compile it:
sudo make clean install
6) Now you need to create a entry in the login manager session list:
sudo gedit /usr/share/xsessions/dwm.desktop
Paste and save this:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=dwm
Comment=This session starts dwm
Exec=/usr/local/bin/dwm
Type=Application
Now you just need to log out and choose dwm in the session list : )
For every time you want to modify dwm, you need to re-compile it, just extract the package again, make your customizations and re-compile it, it will rewrite the installed dwm, so you don’t need to worry about erasing the old one first : )
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