dwm - dynamic window manager

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

This is my personal fork with following patches:

• alwayscenter
• alwaysfullscreen
• auto start
• cfacts
• cool autostart
• fakefullscreen client (with resize fix for chrome-based browsers + noborder fix)
• multikeycode
• movestack
• noborder (floating + border flicker fix)
• pertag
• placemouse
• resizepoint
• statuscmd
• swallow
• switchtag
• systray
• true fullscreen
• hide vacant tags
• warp v2
• winicon

Some patches are rewritten or modified to work together.

Requirements

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

Build Dependencies

• For Arch-Based Distros

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel libx11 libxinerama libxft imlib2

• For Debian/Ubuntu-Based Distros

sudo apt install -y build-essential libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxft-dev libimblib2-dev

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.

Tip

Create a convenient alias for recompiling dwm. This alias will clean up your build directory by removing unnecessary files if the build command succeeds

alias smci="sudo make clean install && rm *.o && rm *.orig"