dwm - dynamic window manager

Sravan's custom build of dwm. Original dwm build by suckless team found here: https://dwm.suckless.org/

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
• fixborders - Make borders opaque
• movestack - Move clients around in the stack and swap them with the master