General Idea

This repo is ment as notes for myself as of how to setup my dwm rice

Base components

dwm
dwmblocks
st
patches as specified below

Git Management

Follow this idea, the basic idea is to have a branch for each patch and then merge them together. For this reason, I did start a new branch for each of my patches and later merged them within a mydwm branch. This later one also contains my personalized config for the keys.

St

Starting with st as this is rather simple

git clone https://git.suckless.org/st

Patches

alpha -> have transparency in the terminal
alpha_focus -> different transparency depending on focus
scrollback -> scrolling back in the terminal with SHIFT+PgUp/Down
scrollback_mouse -> scrolling in the terminal with the SHIFT+Mousewheel
font2 -> better rendering for some powerline fonts
ligatures -> nicer font with ligatures
nordtheme -> the basic colorscheme I use
moonfly -> potential alternative to nord

Get dwm

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

Patches and reasons why

Vanitygaps -> eye candy for gaps and included cfacts for better resizing
status2d -> all patches to work without any extra tool / program for status
xrdb -> xrdb colors, also used within status2d
statusallmons -> statusbar on all monitors
alpha -> Transparency in bar
setstatus -> simpler syntax for setting the status bar
hide_vacant_tags -> show only tags with some client on them (not 1 2 3...9 all the time)
scratchpads -> Use scratchpad for journaling notes

Manually patching

Some(often)times a patch fails to be applicable straigth away. I had the issue with vanity following the deck version of cfacts e.g.. In this case, I did apply the steps manually for the files with error. Later the changes can be recorded to a .diff via

git diff HEAD^ > my_patch_file.diff

Patch to vanilla

dwmblocks

I use this as for my quick research, it was the only one really using separate refresh cycles for its components. So it seemed to be the best fit - dwmblocks

git clone git@github.com:ashish-yadav11/dwmblocks.git

Installation

-> Apply the patch to dwm -> Add dwmblocks & to the ~/.xinitrc

Modules

As opposed to Luke Smith's build, I will now keep the modules within ./dwmblocks/blocks.def but making use of Lukes build, and adding the functions as patches

Install note

Make sure to properly patch dwm for the update to work!
The individual scripts are part of the patch my_full_dwmblocks*...

pacpackages

The pacpackages needs something like a chron job to run pacman -Sy every now an then. I used the native are systemd timers. From within the dwmblocks/blocks.def directory do:

cp pacpackages.service /etc/systemd/system
cp pacpackages.timer /etc/systemd/system
systemctl enable pacpackages.timer
systemctl start pacpackages.timer

TODO

Clickable statusbar --> something with this

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