DWM

Dynamic Window Manager
Along with some more stuff just not in this repo

I archived this repo as it is not kept up to date with Suckless' version and I went back to a regular DE. I have no need for it anymore.

Dependencies

make
gcc
libx11-dev
libxft-dev
libxinerama-dev
xorg (obviously)
xsetroot
Nerd Fonts

If you are using a discreet GPU, make sure to install the necessary drivers beforehand (looking at you nVidia)

My install includes the following :

dwm/dwm - Dynamic window manager (this repo, no need to download it)
st/st - simple terminal
tools/dmenu - dynamic menu
tools/slock - x display locker, recommended if you wanna lock your screen in an office environment

all available with wget on https://dl.suckless.org/

Installation

Extract the other archives using

tar -xvf PACKAGE.tar.gz

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 (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

(For that, you'll have to make sure xsetroot is installed)
But I, ofc, have a .xinitrc in this repo you can take if you want to.
It is currently optimised for my laptop with a battery indicator and all.
A desktop version will come.
If you want to use mine, juste copy or move it to your home directory and remove the .laptop or .desktop from the filename.
IE : mv .xinitrc.laptop ~/.xinitrc

If you wish to use my .xinitrc file, make sure you have the following installed :

awk - Data extraction from the datas in xsetroot
feh - Change the wallpaper

You can put a custom wallpaper in ~/.wp/wp.png
Or you can edit the file, idc

Configuration

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.
Here, you'll be playing with my config but you can modify it at your will.

The modifications I've done include :

Using different fonts
Having media keys working
- Volume keys made to work with Pulseaudio and Alsa
Change the color
The custom .xinitrc

Source

https://git.suckless.org/dwm/