X-Git-Url: https://git.danieliu.xyz/?p=dmenu.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=a8fcdfe1169833d5e884698c6bfe1be0e5f91887;hp=5915a272b0d99fd9f2621428038d68be2c2ca27b;hb=HEAD;hpb=7817523a685f0dbba2e074a448099558a54b1b9c diff --git a/README b/README index 5915a27..a8fcdfe 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,48 +1,24 @@ -dwm - dynamic window manager ----------------------------- -dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. +dmenu - dynamic menu +==================== +dmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for X. Requirements ------------ -In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. +In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files. Installation ------------ -Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into +Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dmenu is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default). -Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if -necessary as root): +Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dmenu +(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 true - do - echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'` - sleep 1 - done | dwm - - -Configuration +Running dmenu ------------- -The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h -and (re)compiling the source code. +See the man page for details.