dwm - dynamic window manager

Aa great way to test build changes without refreshing/restarting your running WM is with Xephyr, a nested X server that runs as an application.

patches applied:

some occasional modification here and there;

• bartoggle keybinds
• bulkill
• colorbar
• fixmultimon
• focusfullscreen
• focusmaster-return
• focusmonmouse
• hide vacant tags
• preventfocusshift
• restartsig
• spawntag
• stacker
• statuscmd
• sticky
• swallow
• vanitygaps
• xrdb

installation, setup:

git clone https://github.com/DissenterNet/dwm-dnet.git
cd dwm-dnet
sudo make clean install

• Basic ~/.xinitrc requirement: exec dwm

• Configure settings (fonts, bindings, gap pixels, etc) in config.def.h before compiling.

  • Defaults: Mod is bound to the windows key
  • mod + enter to open terminal
  • mod + q to quit on a window to close it or on the bg to open the quit prompt
  • mod + shift + backspace to fully exit

colors, other stuff:

If you aren't using ~/.Xresources with or without pywal, default color palette is a variant of Nord.

I have wal generate a template containing dwm Xresource strings. Then, I merge it with wal's auto-generated Xresources file, using xrdb -merge.

~/.config/wal/templates/xrdb_extra

dwm.normbordercolor: {color0}
dwm.normbgcolor: {color0}
dwm.normfgcolor: {color4}
dwm.selbordercolor: {color8}
dwm.selbgcolor: {color4}
dwm.selfgcolor:  {color0}

After creating the template, add these to your wal post-script for automatic xrdb merge and refresh.

ln -sf ~/.cache/wal/colors.Xresources ~/.Xresources
cat ~/.Xresources ~/.cache/wal/xrdb_extra | xrdb -merge
xdotool key super+ctrl+backslash # xrdb refresh keybind

The config has a few glyphs used cosmetically; for those to render properly, install a font with extra glyphs.

The GNU Quilt system (used by Debian to manage patches in source packages) can be used to easily manage, apply, and reverse suckless software patches, and this guide (including suckless-patches.py) can help download and prepare patches for use with Quilt. Thanks to mok0 for sharing!