My simplistic-looking yet advanced build of suckless's dynamic window manager.
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This is in particular to avoid flickering in dwm (and high CPU usage)
when hovering the mouse over a tabbed window that was previously
managed by dwm.

Consider the following two scenarios:

1)

We start tabbed (window 0xc000003), tabbed is managed by the
window manager.
We start st being embedded into tabbed.

$ st -w 0xc000003

What happens here is that:
   - tabbed gets a MapRequest for the st window
   - tabbed reparents the st window
   - tabbed will receive X events for the window

The window manager will have no awareness of the st window and the
X server will not send X events to the window manager relating to
the st window.

There is no flickering or any other issues relating to focus.

2)

We start tabbed (window 0xc000003), tabbed is managed by the
window manager.
We start st as normal (window 0xd400005).

What happens here is that:
   - the window manager gets a MapRequest for the st window
   - dwm manages the st window as a normal client
   - dwm will receive X events for the window

Now we use xdotool to trigger a reparenting of the st window into
tabbed.

$ xdotool windowreparent 0xd400005 0xc000003

What happens here is that:
   - tabbed gets a MapRequest for the st window
   - tabbed reparents the st window
   - the window manager gets an UnmapNotify
   - the window manager no longer manages the st window
   - both the window manager and tabbed will receive X events
     for the st window

In dwm move the mouse cursor over the tabbed window.

What happens now is that:
   - dwm will receive a FocusIn event for the tabbed window
   - dwm will set input focus for the tabbed window
   - tabbed will receive a FocusIn event for the main window
   - tabbed will give focus to the window on the currently selected
     tab
   - which again triggers a FocusIn event which dwm receives
   - dwm determines that the window that the FocusIn event is for
     (0xd400005) is not the currently selected client (tabbed)
   - dwm sets input focus for the tabbed window
   - this causes an infinite loop as long as the mouse cursor hovers
     the tabbed window, resulting in flickering and high CPU usage

The fix here is to tell the X server that we are no longer interested
in receiving events for this window when the window manager stops
managing the window.
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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.