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gridwm
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gridwm is an extremly fast, small, and automatic X11 window manager. It
arranges all windows in a grid.
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Requirements
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In order to build gridwm you need the Xlib header files.
Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup. gridwm is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default.
Afterwards enter the following command to build and install gridwm (if
necessary as root):
make clean install
Running gridwm
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Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start gridwm using startx:
exec gridwm
In order to connect gridwm to a specific display, make sure that
the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
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DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec gridwm
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This will start gridwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
Configuration
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The configuration of gridwm is done by customizing the wm.h source file. To
customize the key bindings edit kb.c.