dwm - dynamic window manager

A fork of dwm, an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.

Notes

I highly recomend you check out the config file to see the colors, icons, keybinds and other stuff.

I don't use the Xdefaults patch because I mean it's too trivial to use the config.def.h file.

The installation will create 4 binaries in your system:

• dwm_status_bar
• print_fullscreen
• print_select
• print_window
• dmenuunicode (and place a file at ~/.local/share/dwm_utils/emoji)
• copygittoken

You can modify them if you have problems or you just want to, and then you must (re)compile it. They are avaliable inside the scripts folder.

Throughout the config file you can check the keybings and all dependencies.

Requirements

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

A Nerd Font (I'm using Hack NF btw) and a font for emojis (you don't need if you won't use emojis on the status bar) (I'm using Noto Color Emoji).

scrot to take screenshots.

viewnior to see the screenshot instantly (it will open automatically in the 8th tag).

st is the default terminal emulator.

xclip to copy to clipboard (it's used to copy emojis and the git token).

dunst to handle notifications.

dmenu to launch applications.

amixer to control the sound.

xdotool if you want emojis.

slock to lock the screen (Optional).

A file called .gittoken in your home directory with your git token without blank spaces.

Don't use root user to install, use sudo, otherwise the makefile will create folders/files in the wrong place

Installation

To build and install dwm:

sudo make clean install

Running dwm

Add the following line to your .xinitrc (or any other xorg server starter) to start dwm using startx/xinit (or sx if you use it):

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

I highly recommend that you use the script I made and run it in your .xinitrc before exec dwm. Example (my config): .config/sx/sxrc or .xinitrc

xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &
${HOME}/.fehbg &
dwm_status_bar &
picom -f  
exec dwm

Configuration

The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.def.h and (re)compiling the source code.

Screenshots