plasmoduck / dwm-gaps

dwm patched with gaps and others

dwm - dynamic window manager

is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X written in C.

This is my personal patched version I use on FreeBSD.

Patches include: Fibonacii Layouts, The Column Layout, Cycle Layouts, Move Stack, Save Floats, Resize Corners, Barpadding, Vanity Gaps, Alternative Tags, Urgent Borders, Scratchpad & Status All Monitors, Spawn Center plus others.

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Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup

Change X11INC = /usr/local/include and X11LIB = /usr/local/lib to /usr/X11R6/include and /usr/X11R6/lib on Linux.

(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 restart dwm without restarting x, add the following to the end of your .xinitrc:

while :; do ssh-agent dwm done

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.