From 498db57ea9c0204ccc0bffc764c650c50f5929f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: david Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:15:52 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Update README, make markdown, add link to upstream, add todo list --- README | 48 ------------------------------------------------ README.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 README create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index 95d4fd0..0000000 --- a/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +0,0 @@ -dwm - dynamic window manager -============================ -dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. - - -Requirements ------------- -In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. - - -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 ------------ -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 - - -Configuration -------------- -The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h -and (re)compiling the source code. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5f84a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# dwm - dynamic window manager + +This is my fork of suckless's dwm, for my customizations/configurations. + +**Upstream:** [](https://git.suckless.org/dwm/) or [](git://git.suckless.org/dwm) + +## TODO + +- use patches i added: + - fibonacci (for spiral layout) + - stacker (for moving windows up and down stack) + - swallow (the replace-windows-in-place feature) + - xresources (maybe? for my theme-changing logic) +