Gitignore & README

- Add gitignore for output and binary files
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# DWM Files
*.o
*.orig
dwm
config.h

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dwm - dynamic window manager
============================
dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
# dwm - dynamic window manager
Sravan's custom build of dwm. Original dwm build by suckless team found here: [https://dwm.suckless.org](https://dwm.suckless.org)
## Requirements
Requirements
------------
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
## Installation
Installation
------------
Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
Edit [config.mk](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
```
make clean install
```
## Running dwm
Running dwm
-----------
Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
exec dwm
```
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
```
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
```
while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
do
sleep 1
done &
exec dwm
```
## Configuration
Configuration
-------------
The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.