DWM Patches

Build a patched version of DWM rather than editing source directly. Patches are applied to the master branch of DWM.

Clone this repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/LetsGoRosco/dwm.git ~/dwm-patched

Clone the original DWM repo:

$ git clone git://git.suckless.org/dwm ~/dwm-orig
$ cd ~/dwm-orig

Edit files as required in the ~/dwm-orig folder then create a unified diff:

$ git diff > ~/dwm-patched/example.diff

Change directory to the ~/dwm-patched folder and edit PKGBUILD to add a reference for the .diff file

$ cd ~/dwm-patched
$ nano PKGBUILD

Update _patches and save PKGBUILD:

_patches=(basic.diff
          example.diff)

and then generate the new md5sums (using this method will provide the md5sums in the correct order):

$ makepkg -g

Add the result into PKGBUILD and run `makepkg' to build with the applied patches

$ makepkg