DWM fork - dynamic window manager

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

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.

Applied Patches

• Barpadding: This patch adds variables for verticle and horizontal space between the statusbar and the edge of the screen.
• Dragmfact: This patch lets you resize the split in the tile layout (e.g. modify mfact) by holding the modkey and dragging the mouse.
• Gapless: his patch is an altered gridmode layout for dwm, which arranges the windows in a grid.
• Movestack: This plugin allows you to move clients around in the stack and swap them
• Scratspads: This patch enables multiple scratchpads.
• Status2d: Status2d allows colors and rectangle drawing in your DWM status bar.
• Spawn_cws: Spawns programs from currently focused client's working directory. with the master.
• Cfacts: This patch provides the ability to assign different weights to clients in their respective stack in tiled layout.
• Statuspadding: This makes the amount of horizontal and vertical padding in the status bar into configurable options.
• Center: Ability to center floating windows
• Systray: A simple system tray implementation.
• Underlinetags: Underlines selected tags.
• Vanitygaps: This patch differentiates between inner and outer gaps as well as horizontal and vertical gaps.

Added layouts

• Bottomstack: bstack and bstackhoriz are two stack layouts for dwm.
• centeredmaster: Centered master layout
• Fibonacci: This patch adds two new layouts (spiral and dwindle) that arranges all windows in Fibonacci tiles.
• Grid Layout in which the windows are arranged in a grid of equal sizes.
• Horizontal: This patch is a variant of gaplessgrid.