My DWM Rice

DWM

• Better fullscreen
• Floating window centering
• New windows attach to the bottom of the stack
• Window title centered
• Right mouse button window resizing
• Gaps
• Smooth updating & restarting with window preservation
• Floating window position saving
• Systray
• Moving tiled windows with mouse buttons

Extra

• Automatic installation and update scripts
• Kitty configuration
• Fastfetch rice
• Full Neovim configuration with LSP, remaps, theme and plugins
• Custom coc.nvim patch
• Picom configuration
• Rofi rice
• Custom ZSH configuration and theme

Installation

The installation script is designed for a minimal Arch Linux install, but may work on some Arch-based distros.

Important

This rice relies on having a permanent existing dwm/ directory. Don't remove the directory after setup.

To install, execute the following commands:

Caution

This might overwrite your existing dotfiles. Make sure to back everything up.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adamperkowski/dwm.git
cd dwm
./install.sh

To update, execute the following commands:

cd $DWM_DIR && ./update.sh

You might need to re-run ./install.sh after an update.

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Keybind List

Keybind	Description
SUPER + RETURN	Spawns kitty (terminal)
SUPER + SHIFT + RETURN	Spawns hyprlauncher (application launcher)
PRNTSCR	Spawns flameshot gui (screenshot utility)
SUPER + DOWN or RIGHT	Moves focus to previous window
SUPER + UP or LEFT	Moves focus to next window
SUPER + SHIFT + UP or RIGHT	Resizes selected window up or right
SUPER + SHIFT + DOWN or LEFT	Resizes selected window down or left
SUPER + LMB	Drags selected window
SUPER + RMB	Resizes selected window
SUPER + I	Increases master window
SUPER + D	Decreases master window
SUPER + TAB	Enters focus mode
SUPER + SHIFT + TAB	Exits focus mode
SUPER + SHIFT + C	Kills selected window
SUPER + SPACE	Toggles floating mode
SUPER + F	Toggles fullscreen mode
SUPER + ,	Moves focus to previous monitor
SUPER + .	Moves focus to next monitor
SUPER + SHIFT + ,	Moves selected window to previous monitor
SUPER + SHIFT + .	Moves selected window to next monitor
SUPER + 1-9	Moves focus to a tag 1-9
SUPER + 0	Shows all windows
SUPER + SHIFT + Q	Kills dwm
SUPER + SHIFT + W	Restarts dwm
CTRL + SHIFT + E	Spawns emote picker