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arg@10ksloc.org · 2006-07-21 09:59 1 file(s) · +17 −1
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dwm - dynamic window manager
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dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.

            

            
            

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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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Displaying status info

            

            
            

                
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In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following

            

            
            

                
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in .xinitrc:

            

            
            

                
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    $HOME/.dwm/status | dwm

            

            
            

                
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    #!/bin/sh

            

            
            

                
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    while true

            

            
            

                
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        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`

            

            
            

                
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