chadwm (Initial look)

(empty workspaces have their color greyed out)

• NOTE: This is vanilla dwm bar (status2d patch for setting colors) not dwmblocks or polybar.

- The small widget over the top right is an eww widget and thats old! Ive improved the eww widget

(catppuccin theme)

(gruvbox material dark)

Tag preview (while hovering tag icon)

simplescreenrecorder-2021-08-03_21.28.49.mp4

Requirements

• dash (shell)
• imlib2
• xsetroot package ( status2d uses this to add colors on dwmbar)
• JetbrainsMono Nerd Font or any nerd font but dont forget to set it in config.def.h
• Materiald design icon font - link
• Make sure to setup your terminal's theme accordingly do chadwm's theme such as nord, onedark etc.

Install

git clone https://github.com/siduck/chadwm --depth 1  ~/.config
cd ~/.config/chadwm/chadwm
mv eww ~/.config
sudo make install

Run chadwm

With startx

startx ~/.config/chadwm/scripts/run.sh

With sx

sx sh ~/.config/chadwm/scripts/run.sh

(Make an alias for this :v)

alias chadwm='startx ~/.config/chadwm/scripts/run.sh'

With Display Manager

• Create a desktop entry :

sudo touch /usr/share/xsessions/chadwm.desktop  

[Desktop Entry]
Name=chadwm
Comment=dwm made beautiful 
Exec= ~/.config/chadwm/scripts/./run.sh 
Type=Application 

• wallpaper

Recompile

• You need to recompile dwm after every change you make in its src code

cd ~/.config/chadwm/chadwm
rm config.h
sudo make install

Change themes

• Bar : in bar.sh and config.def.h
• eww : in eww.scss
• rofi : in config.rasi

Credits

• HUGE THANKS to eProTaLT83. I wanted certain features in dwm like tabbar in monocle , tagpreview etc and he implemented my ideas and created patches for me! I cant even count the number of times he has helped me :v
• @fitrh helped with colorful tag patch
• 6gk, eww's pure posix fetch functions taken from here
• mafetch, modified version of this was used as fetch in the screenshots

Patches

• barpadding
• bottomstack
• cfacts
• dragmfact
• dragcfact (took from bakkeby's build)
• fibonacii
• gaplessgrid
• horizgrid
• movestack
• vanity gaps
• colorful tags
• statuspadding
• status2d
• underline tags
• notitle
• preserveonrestart, This patch doesnt let all windows mix up into tag 1 after restarting dwm