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I really love this window manager for several reasons, the major ones being:
1. <2000 SLOC
2. completely hackable
3. very active development
4. very active community
So I want to start a dwm hacking thread so we can have a specific place where we can share ideas, share configs, comment on each other's desktops, recommend scripts, etc. etc...
I'm still using dwm-4.7 (since I don't really have much reason to upgrade to 4.9 yet). Here are some of my (lame) configs/scripts:
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/* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */
/* appearance */
#define BARPOS BarTop /* BarBot, BarOff */
#define BORDERPX 1
#define FONT "-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
#define NORMBORDERCOLOR "#333"
#define NORMBGCOLOR "#000"
#define NORMFGCOLOR "#ccc"
#define SELBORDERCOLOR "#f00"
#define SELBGCOLOR "#300"
#define SELFGCOLOR "#fff"
/* tagging */
const char tags[][MAXTAGLEN] = { "main", "www", "mail", "doc", "img" };
Bool seltags[LENGTH(tags)] = {[0] = True};
Rule rules[] = {
/* class:instance:title regex tags regex isfloating */
{ "Opera", "www", False },
{ "feh", "img", True },
{ "Xpdf", NULL, True },
{ "thunderbird", "mail", True },
{ "Gimp", NULL, True },
{ "MPlayer", NULL, True },
{ "Acroread", NULL, True },
};
/* layout(s) */
#define MWFACT 0.6 /* master width factor [0.1 .. 0.9] */
#define RESIZEHINTS True /* False - respect size hints in tiled resizals */
#define SNAP 32 /* snap pixel */
Layout layouts[] = {
/* symbol function */
{ "[]=", tile }, /* first entry is default */
{ "><>", floating },
};
/* key definitions */
#define MODKEY Mod4Mask
Key keys[] = {
/* modifier key function argument */
{ MODKEY, XK_p, spawn,
"exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu -fn '"FONT"' -nb '"NORMBGCOLOR"' -nf '"NORMFGCOLOR"'"
" -sb '"SELBGCOLOR"' -sf '"SELFGCOLOR"'` && exec $exe" },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_Return, spawn, "exec urxvt +sb -bg black -fg white -tr -sh 20" },
{ MODKEY, XK_o, spawn, "opera" },
{ MODKEY, XK_w, spawn, "exec ~/code/scripts/wpchange.pl" },
{ MODKEY, XK_t, spawn, "thunderbird" },
{ MODKEY, XK_space, setlayout, NULL },
{ MODKEY, XK_b, togglebar, NULL },
{ MODKEY, XK_j, focusnext, NULL },
{ MODKEY, XK_k, focusprev, NULL },
{ MODKEY, XK_h, setmwfact, "-0.05" },
{ MODKEY, XK_l, setmwfact, "+0.05" },
{ MODKEY, XK_m, togglemax, NULL },
{ MODKEY, XK_Return, zoom, NULL },
{ MODKEY, XK_Tab, viewprevtag, NULL },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_space, togglefloating, NULL },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_c, killclient, NULL },
{ MODKEY, XK_0, view, NULL },
{ MODKEY, XK_1, view, tags[0] },
{ MODKEY, XK_2, view, tags[1] },
{ MODKEY, XK_3, view, tags[2] },
{ MODKEY, XK_4, view, tags[3] },
{ MODKEY, XK_5, view, tags[4] },
{ MODKEY, XK_6, view, tags[5] },
{ MODKEY, XK_7, view, tags[6] },
{ MODKEY, XK_8, view, tags[7] },
{ MODKEY, XK_9, view, tags[8] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_1, toggleview, tags[0] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_2, toggleview, tags[1] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_3, toggleview, tags[2] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_4, toggleview, tags[3] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_5, toggleview, tags[4] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_6, toggleview, tags[5] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_7, toggleview, tags[6] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_8, toggleview, tags[7] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_9, toggleview, tags[8] },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_0, tag, NULL },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_1, tag, tags[0] },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_2, tag, tags[1] },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_3, tag, tags[2] },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_4, tag, tags[3] },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_5, tag, tags[4] },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_6, tag, tags[5] },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_7, tag, tags[6] },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_8, tag, tags[7] },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_9, tag, tags[8] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, XK_1, toggletag, tags[0] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, XK_2, toggletag, tags[1] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, XK_3, toggletag, tags[2] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, XK_4, toggletag, tags[3] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, XK_5, toggletag, tags[4] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, XK_6, toggletag, tags[5] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, XK_7, toggletag, tags[6] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, XK_8, toggletag, tags[7] },
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, XK_9, toggletag, tags[8] },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_q, quit, NULL },
};
Here is a small perl script I wrote to change wallpapers (keybound to Modkey + w):
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#randomly change my wallpaper.
use warnings;
use strict;
opendir(DIR, "/home/f/misc/wallpaper") || die "can't opendir ~/misc/wallpapers: $!";
my @files = grep { $_ ne '.' and $_ ne '..' } readdir(DIR);
closedir DIR;
# perldoc -q "random element"
my $chosenwp = $files[rand @files];
#print "chosen wallpaper is: $chosenwp\n";
system("feh --bg-scale /home/f/misc/wallpaper/\"$chosenwp\"");
Right now I don't have mpd up and running, but when I did I used to stream music from my server to my laptop (which runs dwm) and I would have the artist and track title display on the top bar, along with some boring info like uptime. Here was the script for it:
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#!/usr/bin/sh
while true
do
echo "[`uptime | sed s/up\ \ /\ uptime:\ /` ] | `mpc --format "mpd: %artist% - %title%" | head -1`"
sleep 1
done | dwm
Anyways, thats all I have for now. I'll add more to this thread as I do more cool things with dwm. Hopefully there are some other dwm users out there who can also contribute.
