dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager

dvtm brings dwm and it's concept of tiling window management to the console. See http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm for the latest version.

Requirements

In order to build dvtm you will need:

• libncurses or libncursesw for wide character support

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dvtm is installed into the /usr/local namespace and links against libncursesw by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dvtm (if necessary as root).

make && make install

Running dvtm

Just run dvtm from the console, redirect stderr to a file (just in case something goes wrong you will see it there).

dvtm 2> log

If you want to display a one line status bar you can create a named pipe and pass it's name to dvtm via it's -s command line option. Make sure that the pipe remains open until dvtm is closed, see the included dvtm-status script as an example.

Configuration

The configuration of dvtm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.