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 on the top right is an eww widget and thats old! I've 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...

Other requirements

• picom
• feh
• acpi
• rofi

Install

git clone https://github.com/siduck/chadwm --depth 1  ~/.config
cd ~/.config/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 (make sure to change user with your user):

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

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

• wallpaper

Recompile

• You need to recompile dwm after every change you make to its source code.

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

Change themes

• Bar : in bar.sh (line 9) and config.def.h (line 35)
• eww : in eww.scss (line 1)
• rofi : in config.rasi (line 15)

Eww

• First, make sure you have copied the eww directory to your config:

cp -r ~/.config/chadwm/eww ~/.config/

• To launch the eww widget, you need the following command:

eww open eww

• If you use alsa to manage your audio, instead of pulseaudio or pipewire, you can also launch an alsa widget:

eww open alsa-gui

• It could be a good idea to add these lines to your autostart file, located at ~/.config/chadwm/scripts/run.sh

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 can't 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.