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Patches Added

• vanitygaps
• colorbar
• canfocus
• rotatestack
• IPC
• resizemove with mouse
• restartsig
• swallow
• hide vacant tags + powerline tags
• rotatetags
• autostart
• dynamicscratchpads
• barpadding
• barheight
• awesomebar
• status2d
• systray
• cfacts
• statusbutton
• And a few layouts

Its good to have slstatus set up with dwm (included in my slstatus repo)

Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. You will also need libxft-bgra for colored emojis

Installation

git clone https://github.com/pearcidar/dwm.git
cd dwm

Edit config.mk to match your local setup if needed(dwm is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default). then run:

sudo make clean install

dwm will search for an autostart script in .local/share/dwm/autostart.sh, create that for autostart functionality

Running dwm

dwm is usable with a display manager with the included dwm.desktop file

or:

Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:

exec dwm

In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:

DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm

(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)

Slstatus will have all the needed statusbar scripts with it, use my build or other builds for that

Configuration

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h (or config.def.h for default settings) and recompiling the source code with sudo make install

Credits

Thanks to dwm-flexipatch