dwm - dynamic window manager

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

add setgapsex to dwmc

Patches applied

• aspectresize - Resize the window with its aspect ratio remain constant
• attachaside - Make new clients get attached and focused in the stacking area instead of always becoming the new master.
• canfocusfloating - Allows disabling focus on floating clients
• columngaps - Like tile layout, except provides for vertical instead of horizontal master windows.
• dwmc - Simple client to communicate with dwm.
• fakefullscreen - Only allow clients to "fullscreen" into space currently given to them.
• fibonacci - This patch adds two new layouts (spiral and dwindle) that arranges all windows in Fibonacci tiles.
• float border color - Simple client to communicate with dwm.
• focusonclick - Switch focus only by mouse click.
• hideborder - Patch that turns border color of active client to the background color
• gaplessgrid - Layout for dwm, which arranges the windows in a grid
• hidevacanttags - This patch prevents dwm from drawing tags with no clients on the bar.
• moveresizedge - This change allows you to move and resize dwm's clients using keyboard bindings.
• movestack - This plugin allows you to move clients around in the stack and swap them with the master.
• nmaxmaster - Adds limit to number of clients
• noborder - Remove the border when there is only one window visible.
• pertag - This patch keeps layout, mwfact, barpos and nmaster per tag.
• restartsig - dwm can now be restarted.
• save_floats - This patch saves size and position of every floating window before it is forced into tiled mode. If the window is made floating again, the old dimensions will be restored.
• scratchpad - The scratchpad patch allows you to spawn or restore a floating terminal window. It is usually useful to have one to do some short typing.
• statusallmons - This patch draws and updates the statusbar on all monitors.
• sticky - Allows to make a client 'sticky'. A sticky client is visible on all tags.
• swallow - This patch adds "window swallowing" to dwm
• systray - Simple system tray implementation
• tile - This patch adds gaps like tilegap that are resizeable at runtime.
• urgent border This patch makes borders of "urgent" windows a different color.
• viewontag - Follow a window to the tag it is being moved to.
• warp - This patch warps the mouse cursor to the center of the currently focused window or screen when the mouse cursor is (a) on a different screen or (b) on top of a different window.
• zoomswap - This patch changes the behavior of zoom, to keep all other windows as they are

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.