dwm - dynamic window manager

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

This is (my work in progress) build for dwm taken under the MIT License from suckless website.

Patches

• autostart
• decorhints
• dwmc
• focusmaster
• restartsig
• scratchpad
• swallow
• vanitygaps
• xresources
• center
• cmdsignal
• noborderfloating fix
• fix borders (for border opacity)

Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
For swallow :
xcb libxcb-xkb-dev x11-xkb-utils libx11-xcb-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev libxcb-res0 libxcb-res0-dev (Ubuntu 20.04)

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

Makefile is edited to delete config.h

Special Additions

This build can change the color live by using the Xresources patch and an Image Color extractor like pywal.
A new function that reads live the X server resource database has been added. It was taken from the xrdb patch.

void
livereloadxrdb(const Arg *arg)
{
        load_xresources();
        int i;
        for (i = 0; i < LENGTH(colors); i++)
                scheme[i] = drw_scm_create(drw, colors[i], 3);
        focus(NULL);
        arrange(NULL);
}

By attaching the livereloadxrdb function to a keybinding or by adding it to the dwmc patch, the livereload function be called manualy or by a script to reload the colors added with the $ xrdb.

For example with this build pywal is given a template to fill after extracting the colors and then xrdb is given the path to the output of the template in the ~/.cache/wal directory.

wal -qn -i "Path to image"
feh --bg-fill "Path to image"
xrdb -merge "$HOME/.cache/wal/dwm.Xresources"
dwmc reloadxrdb