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Setting up DWM on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian lite
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Setting up DWM on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian lite

Make sure git is intalled

sudo apt install git

Clone the repository from suckless:

git clone https://git.suckless.org/dwm

Install the required dependencies

sudo apt install libx11-dev libxft-dev libxinerama-dev

Build and install dwm

cd dwm && sudo make clean install

Install xinit

sudo apt install xinit

Confiure /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

#!/bin/sh

# /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
#
# global xinitrc file, used by all X sessions started by xinit (startx)

# invoke global X session script
# /etc/X11/Xsession

exec dwm

Enter the desktop environment:

startx
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