dwm

Requirements

To change the text in the statusbar, you need to have the xsetroot command available.

pacman -S xorg-xsetroot

Installation

make clean install

Create a startdwm script with the following content.

#!/bin/sh

dwmblocks &

while true; do
    dwm &>> ~/.dwm.log
done

Create a .desktop file at /usr/share/xsessions to allow choosing dwm in your display-manager.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=dwm
Comment=suckless dwm
Exec=/home/michael/scripts/startdwm
Type=Application

Tip for Chromium In order to display the dwm borders on Chromium/Chrome windows, right click on the "title bar" at the top of Chromium and toggle Use system title bar and borders.

Patches

Official

• center
• fakefullscreen
• vanitygaps
• pertag
• movestack
• Xresources
• centeredmaster
• fancybar

Additional

• Fix border transparency bug for transparent terminal windows (attribution)
• Add top/bottom padding to bar, change square to full-width line
• Choose the centeredmaster layout if the screensize is greater than 2560px
• Implement function to resize a window to 1920x1080. Useful for screen recording.

Keybindings

Not all keybindings are listed here, only the ones that aren't obvious.

Basic

• Toggle bar super + b

Navigation

• Increase number of master windows super + i
• Decrease number of master windows super + d
• Move focus to next screen super + ,
• Move focus to previous screen super + .
• Move active window to next screen super + shift + ,
• Move active window to previous screen super + shift + .

Gaps

• Toggle gaps alt + super + 0
• Reset gaps to default alt + super + shift + 0
• Increase gaps alt + super + h
• Decrease gaps alt + super + l

Additional Features

• Resize window to 1920x1080 super + shift + r

Attribution

Some parts of the source code, mostly the vanitygaps patches for the custom layouts, have been copied from Luke Smith's dwm.