chadwm (Archlinux fast install)

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simplescreenrecorder-2021-08-03_21.28.49.mp4

Requirements (or just start packages.sh script)

• 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 packages

• picom
• feh
• rofi

Install

Simply download the repo:

git clone https://github.com/FrancescoXD/chadwm.git --depth 1 ~/.config/chadwm
cd ~/.config/chadwm/

And now if you want to skip all these parts below just start the installer script:

chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

Run chadwm

With startx

startx ~/.config/chadwm/scripts/run.sh

With sx

sx sh ~/.config/chadwm/scripts/run.sh

With a Display Manager

Change user to your username in the chadwm.desktop file.

sudo mkdir /usr/share/xsessions/ # if it doesn't exist
sudo mv chadwm.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/

Recompile

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

cd ~/.config/chadwm/chadwm
make clean
sudo make install

Change themes (default: catppuccin)

• 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
• winicon
• preserveonrestart. This patch doesnt let all windows mix up into tag 1 after restarting dwm.