dwm - dynamic window manager

Sravan's custom build of dwm. Original dwm build by suckless team found here: https://dwm.suckless.org/ Choice of patches heavily inspired by Palmdrop's custom build of dwm.

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.

Patches

Most patches can be found on the suckless website: https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/

• actualfullscreen - Actually toggle fullscreen for a window, instead of toggling the status bar and the monocle layout
• alwaysfullscreen - Do not allow the focus to drift from the active fullscreen client when using focusstack()
• anybar (Polybar Tray Fix Version) - Enables dwm to manage external status bars such as lemonbar and polybar
• aspectresize - Allows you to resize a window while maintaining aspect ratio
• attachbelow (Toggleable) - Make new clients attach below the selected client, instead of always becoming the new master
• autoresize - Windows that are not visible when requesting a resize/move will get resized/moved
• center - Add an iscentered rule to automatically center clients on the current monitor
• cfacts - Assign different weights to clients in their respective stack in tiled layout
• cfacts-vanitygaps - Vanity gaps patch compatible with cfacts patch
• combo - Select multiple tags for tag or view by pressing all the right keys as a combo
• cool autostart - Execute commands from autostart array in config.h on startup and kill processes upon dwm exit
• cyclelayouts - Cycle through all available layouts
• dwmc - Simple dwmc client using a fork of fsignal to communicate with dwm
• fixborders - Make borders opaque
• ipc - Allows third party programs (e.g. polybar) to query window manager for information
• movestack - Move clients around in the stack and swap them with the master
• noborder (Floating Fix) - Remove the border when there is only one window visible
• swallow - Programs opened from terminal will "swallow" the terminal
• unfloatvisible - Resets isfloating on any visible windows that have it set
• xresources - Allows dwm settings (e.g. colors) to be set in Xresources

Polybar

The anybar and ipc patches above allow dwm to use an external status bar. I am using polybar. My config can be found here.

• Polybar DWM Module
• Polybar