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# dwl

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dwl is the wlroots-based fork of the suckless window manager dwm created for Wayland users.

## Installation

dwl can be installed with the dwlAUR or dwl-gitAUR packages. Make any required configuration changes before building and installing, see makepkg.

## Configuration

dwl can be configured in C by editing `config.h` in the source files. You can revert to the defaults by copying the contents of `config.def.h` into `config.h`. Remember to rebuild your package to use your changes.

## Usage

Enable/start `seatd.service` from seatd, which will be installed as a dependency of wlroots, otherwise dwl will kick and scream at runtime about how it cannot open a backend and cannot find any seats. dwl can then be started via

    $ dbus-run-session dwl

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