dwm-flexipatch/README.md

This dwm 6.2 side project has a different take on dwm patching. It uses preprocessor directives to decide whether or not to include a patch during build time. Essentially this means that this build, for better or worse, contains both the patched and the original code. The aim being that you can select which patches to include and the build will contain that code and nothing more.

For example to include the alpha patch then you would only need to flip this setting from 0 to 1 in patches.h:

#define ALPHA_PATCH 1

So if you have ever been curious about trying out dwm, but have been discouraged by manual patching, then this may be a good starting point to see what a "fully fledged" dwm can look like. Want to try out the pertag patch? Just flip a config and recompile. Once you have found out what works for you and what doesn't then you should be in a better position to choose patches should you want to start patching from scratch.

Refer to https://dwm.suckless.org/ for details on the dwm window manager, how to install it and how it works.

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Changelog:

2019-10-04 - Added maximize, movestack, monoclesymbol, noborder and tagall patches

2019-10-03 - Added onlyquitonempty and switchcol patches

2019-10-02 - Added restartsig, emptyview, focusurgent and focusadjacenttag patches

2019-10-01 - Added leftlayout, fullscreen, holdbar and unfloatvisible patches

2019-09-30 - Replaced flextile with flextile-deluxe, refactored monitor rules to support predetermined layouts per tag

2019-09-15 - Added focusonclick, xrdb, viewontag, urgentborder and winview patches

2019-09-14 - Added setborderpx, selfrestart and push (no master variant), sticky and warp patches

2019-09-13 - Added titlecolor and push patches

2019-09-12 - Added activetagindicatorbar, alwaysfullscreen and autoresize patches

2019-09-11 - Added monitor rules, combo and ewmhtags patches

2019-09-10 - Minor tweaks to awesomebar patch (incl. alpha and systray compatibility). Added floatbordercolor patch.

2019-09-09 - Added deck, fibonacci (dwindle and spiral), gridmode, gapplessgrid, horizgrid, nrowgrid, centeredmaster and flextile layouts. Added alternativetags and awesomebar patches.

2019-09-08 - Added cfacts and vanitygaps patches, added bstack and bstackhoriz layouts

2019-09-07 - Added cyclelayouts, resizecorners, rotatestack, savefloats, statuspadding, switchtag, center and windowrolerule patches

2019-09-06 - Added attachabove, attachaside, attachbelow, attachbottom, autostart, fancybar, focusonnetactive and losefullscreen patches

2019-09-05 - Alpha, systray, togglefullscreen, tagallmon, tagmonfixfs, tagswapmon, pertag and zoomswap patches added

Patches included:

• activetagindicatorbar

  • this patch changes the rectangle indicating if a tag is used by a client into a bar above the tag name

• alpha

  • adds transparency for the status bar

• alternativetags

  • adds alternative tags which can be toggled on the fly for the sole purpose of providing visual aid

• alwaysfullscreen

  • prevents the focus to drift from the active fullscreen client when using focusstack()

• attachabove

  • new windows are placed above selected client

• attachaside

  • new windows are placed on top of the stack

• attachbelow

  • new windows are placed below selected client

• attachbottom

  • new windows are placed at the bottom of the stack

• autoresize

  • by default, windows that are not visible when requesting a resize/move will not get resized/moved, with this patch, however, they will

• autostart

  • makes dwm run ~/.dwm/autostart_blocking.sh and ~/.dwm/autostart.sh & on startup

• awesomebar

  • enhanced taskbar that allows focus / hiding / unhiding of windows by clicking on the status bar

• center

  • adds an iscentered rule to automatically center clients on the current monitor

• cfacts

  • the cfacts patch provides the ability to assign different weights to clients in their respective stack in tiled layout

• combo

  • allows you to select multiple tags by pressing all the right keys as a combo, e.g. hold MOD and press and hold 1 and 3 together to view those two tags

• cyclelayouts

  • lets you cycle through all your layouts

• emptyview

  • allows no tag at all to be selected
  • dwm will start with no tag selected and when a client with no tag rule is started and no tag is selected then it will be opened on the first tag

• ewmhtags

  • adds EWMH support for _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS, _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP, _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES and _NET_DESKTOP_VIEWPORT, which allows for compatibility with other bars and programs that request workspace information, e.g. polybar's xworkspaces module

• fancybar

  • shows the titles of all visible windows in the status bar

• floatbordercolor

  • this patch allows a different border color to be chosen for floating windows

• focusadjacenttag

  • provides the ability to focus the tag on the immediate left or right of the currently focused tag
  • it also allows to send the focused window either on the left or the right tag

• focusonclick

  • this patch makes you switch focus only by mouse click and not sloppy (focus follows mouse pointer)

• focusonnetactive

  • by default, dwm responds to _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW client messages by setting the urgency bit on the named window
  • this patch activates the window instead

• focusurgent

  • adds a keyboard shortcut to select the next window having the urgent flag regardless of the tag it is on

• fullscreen

  • applies the monocle layout with the focused client on top and hides the bar
  • when pressed again it shows the bar and restores the layout that was active before going fullscreen

• holdbar

  • with this patch dwm's built-in status bar is only shown when HOLDKEY is pressed
  • additionally the bar will now overlay the display

• leftlayout

  • moves the layout symbol in the status bar to the left hand side

• losefullscreen

  • by default in dwm it is possible to make an application fullscreen, then use the focusstack keybindings to focus on other windows beneath the current window
  • it is also possible to spawn new windows (e.g. a terminal) that end up getting focus while the previous window remains in fullscreen
  • this patch ensures that in such scenarios the previous window loses fullscreen

• maximize

  • adds helper functions for maximizing, horizontally and vertically, floating windows using keybindings

• monitorrules

  • adds rules per monitor, e.g. have default layouts per monitor
  • the use case for this is if the second monitor is vertical (i.e. rotated) then you may want to use a different default layout for this monitor than what is used for the main monitor (for example normal vertical split for main monitor and horizontal split for the second)

• monoclesymbol

  • always display the the monocle-symbol as defined in config.h if the monocle-layout is activated
  • do not display the number of open clients in the current tag

• movestack

  • allows you to move clients around in the stack and swap them with the master

• noborder

  • removes the border when there is only one window visible

• onlyquitonempty

  • makes it so dwm will only exit via quit() if no windows are open (in order to prevent accidental loss of work)

• pertag

  • adds nmaster, mfact, layouts and more per tag rather than per monitor

• push

  • this patch provides a way to move clients up and down inside the client list

• resizecorners

  • by default, windows only resize from the bottom right corner
  • with this patch the mouse is warped to the nearest corner and you resize from there

• restartsig

  • adds a keyboard shortcut to restart dwm or alternatively by using kill -HUP dwmpid
  • additionally dwm can quit cleanly by using kill -TERM dwmpid

• rotatestack

  • let's you rotate through the stack using keyboard shortcuts

• savefloats

  • saves size and position of every floating window before it is forced into tiled mode
  • if the window is made floating again then the old dimensions will be restored

• selfrestart

  • restart dwm without the unnecessary dependency of an external script

• setborderpx

  • this patch allows border pixels to be changed during runtime

• statuspadding

  • adds configuration options for horizontal and vertical padding in the status bar

• sticky

  • adds toggleable keyboard shortcut to make a client 'sticky', i.e. visible on all tags

• switchcol

  • allows you to switch focus between the master and stack columns using a single keybinding

• switchtag

  • when an application opens on a specific tab this patch adds the option to also switch to that tag when the application starts

• systray

  • adds system tray in the status bar

• tagall

  • adds keyboard shortcuts to move all (or only floating) windows from one tag to another

• tagallmon

  • move all visible windows to an adjacent monitor

• tagmonfixfs

  • allows moving a fullscreen window to another monitor while remaining in fullscreen

• tagswapmon

  • swap all visible windows on one monitor with those of an adjacent monitor

• titlecolor

  • adds a new color scheme used by the (selected) window title in the bar

• togglefullscreen

  • allows you to toggle fullscreen on and off using a single shortcut key

• unfloatvisible

  • resets isfloating on any visible windows that have it set and optionally also applies a layout

• urgentborder

  • this patch makes "urgent" windows have different colors

• vanitygaps

  • adds configurable gaps between windows differentiating between outer, inner, horizontal and vertical gaps

• viewontag

  • follow a window to the tag it is being moved to

• warp

  • 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

• windowrolerule

  • sometimes a single application opens different windows depending on the task at hand and this is often reflected in the WM_WINDOW_ROLE(STRING) x property
  • this patch adds the role field to the rule configuration so that one can differentiate between, say, Firefox "browser" vs "Preferences" vs "Manager" or Google-chrome "browser" vs "pop-up".

• winview

  • allows switching the view to that of a given client from the all-window view (Mod-0) using a keyboard shortcut

• xrdb

  • allows dwm to read colors from xrdb (.Xresources) during runtime

• zoomswap

  • allows a master and a stack window to swap places rather than every window on the screen changing position

Layouts included:

• bstack

  • bottomstack layout

• bstackhoriz

  • bottomstack horizontal layout

• centeredmaster

  • centeredmaster layout

• centeredfloatingmaster

  • centeredfloatingmaster layout

• deck

  • deck layout

• fibonacci

  • fibonacci (dwindle and spiral) layouts

• flextile-deluxe

  • a re-envisioned, flexible and over-the-top version of the original flextile patch supporting
    • multiple split layouts (horizontal, vertical, centered, floating, fixed)
    • tile arrangement on a per split basis (stack horizontally, stack vertically, grids, fibonacci)
    • pertag, cfacts, rmaster, vanitygaps compatibility
    • tile, deck, monocle, centeredmaster, bstack, bstackhoriz, gapplessgrid and more
  • this gives you a lot of versatility in terms of layout

• gapplessgrid

  • gappless grid layout

• gridmode

  • gridmode (grid) layout

• horizgrid

  • horizontal grid layout

• nrowgrid

  • nrowgrid layout, number of rows in grid controlled by nmaster