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In order to build dwm you should install packages: git, xorg-server, xorg-xinit, xorg-xrandr, xorg-xsetroot.
$ sudo pacman -S git xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-randr xorg-xsetroot
You will also require the font used which can be found in config.h. Use fontconfig to set the font after downloading.
First create .xinitrc in the path /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (remember that linux is case sensitive for X11)
$ cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc .xinitrc
Then replace the last 5 lines of .xinitrc with:
exec dwm
using your text editor (nano is default on Arch).
Git clone dwm into your user's default path (~).
$ git clone https://github.com/jeffock/dwm
You may return an SSL error: if you do, run the following instead
$ git -c http.sslVerify=false clone https://github.com/jeffock/dwm
Enter the following command to build and install dwm (if necessary as root):
make clean install
Because we added exec dwm to .xinitrc we can run dwm with:
$ startx
This fork of dwm is a basic build/rice of dwm. However, if you would like to make your own changes most settings will be found in config.h.
If you want to patch (build) to your liking follow suckless's guide
If you plan on making your own build of dwm it is recommended that you use a main branch or trunk to do so, for more information follow suckless's guide to patching in git