Welcome to my personal build of dwm

This project hosts my personal patched version of dwm Below is included the original readme from the suckless dwm project.

Dwm is a dynamic tiling window manager. A window manager is in charge of arranging graphical windows of user applications across the screen and is a crucial part of any graphical desktop computer. A dynamic tiling window manager will arrange windows automatically, based on predictable rules and provides keyboard shortcuts for manipulating windows. My particular build of dwm is leaning in even more on keyboard controls. Patches like xtile and moveplace provide immense power of controlling the shape, size, and location of clients. Cursorwarp minimizes the distance you have you move the mouse. All this pairs nicely with xbanish, which means you don't even have to see the cursor when you're not using it.

Patches applied are (in no particular order):

• cfacts Allow resizing clients in stack.
• adjacent tags Switch to next or previous tag.
• xtile Control how clients are tiled.
  • Replaced bottom stack and centered master layouts.
• attach aside and below Don't push existing clients around when spawning a new one.
• hide vacant tags Don't render tag icons in title bar for tags without clients.
• in place rotate Rotate clients around their stack, or around master and stack.
• pertag - perseltag Allow different master/stack sizes and layouts for tags
• dynamic scratchpads Assign windows to scratchpad and hide/show cycle through them
• titlecolor Allow colouring the title bar.
• center Adds a rule for automatically centring floating clients on launch.
• cursorwarp Makes the cursor follow around when focus changes. For example when focussing another monitor or spawning new clients.
• moveplace Shrink current window, make it float, and move it to one combination of top/centre/bottom left/centre/right positions in one move.
• aspectresize Grow a floating window in height and width simultaneously.
• moveresize Control size and position of floating clients with the keyboard.
• tagintostack Toggling additional tags into view will put their clients in the stack area, rather than moving the master.

Configuration changes

• Colours. Flat black for all backgrounds, same colours for the title as for the rest of the bar. Single pixel clear white border.
• Keybindings. I use the meta (windows) key as a modifier for all window manager related operations to avoid collisions with app specific hotkeys.
• Added binds for launching specific terminal commands and programs, such as my browser (Librewolf) or top, dmenu, passmenu, calc, cmus, or nnn

Original README below:

dwm - dynamic window manager

dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.

Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.

Installation

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

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running dwm

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.)

In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something like this in your .xinitrc:

while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
do
	sleep 1
done &
exec dwm

Configuration

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.