dwm-scratchpad

Patch to enable a scratchpad feature in dwm as in i3wm.

interface (dwm.c)

# define SCRATCHPAD_MASK (1u << sizeof tags / sizeof * tags) - macro that can be used in config.h
static void scratchpad_hide (); - move selected window to scratchpad
static void scratchpad_remove (); - remove selected window from scratchpad
static void scratchpad_show (); - restore sequential window from scratchpad

default keybindings (config.def.h)

MODKEY, XK_minus - scratchpad_show
MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_minus - scratchpad_hide
MODKEY, XK_equal - scratchpad_remove

start a window in scratchpad?

Add something like this in rules (config.h):

{ NULL, "hidden", NULL, SCRATCHPAD_MASK, 0, -1 },

And launch something like this:

st -n hidden

doesn't conflict with the namedscratchpads patch

namedscratchpads is a great scratchpad implementation, and this patch doesn't conflict with it. Why to use both this and the namedscratchpads patches? Because though they're both named 'scratchpad' patches, they do different things. This patch doesn't implement namedscratchpads' functionality to avoid bloating and keep simple.

multiple dynamic scratchpads

Thanks to Anukul Adhikari for extending this patch to have multiple dynamic scratchpads.

on Suckless' website

https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/dynamicscratchpads/

https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/multipledynamicscratchpads/