About this fork

Warning

My changes to dwm is in a different branch, with the suckless branch containing the updated upstream code.

Whenever I pull the updates from suckless.org, I rebase my changes onto the suckless branch. So my commits always stays on top of the upstream code. However, the commits will be modified (new commit hash) every time I update, which could be quite annoying if anyone including me want to keep track on a specific commit.

I will force push until either I found out a better way to maintain the different patches or, not quite possibly, anyone else wants to fork and contribute to my patched dwm.

Patches

You can check the first few dozens of commits in the git repo for the patches I made.

Something worth mentioning:

A UNIVERSAL, layout-independent gaps patch.

That is, you don't have to change any layouts to make them show window gaps!

Kinda hacky (not that much). I did two things to produce gaps between windows and window-monitor:

1. Adding a margin around every tiled window.
2. Adding a padding to the whole monitor area.

The step 1 will almost finish the job, but the gap between windows will be 2 times the margin, while the outer gap between window and monitor bezel will only be equal to the margin, only half of the former. Thus in the step 2, I added a padding, equal to the margin, to the monitor, which effectively made the outer gap also 2 times the margin.

But, I think it is in someway better than to modify EVERY layout patch.

Status bar patches

Clickable status bar

This is based on the statuscmd patch

You can add \000 to \017 in the xsetroot command to specify clickable areas.

Once you click on one area following \0NN, the script statuscmd will be called with hex value of NN as the first argument.

E.g. If you

xsetroot -name " a $(printf "\001") b "

Then, Status bar shows a b. Click on b with left button, then dwm will execute the command BUTTON=1 <statuscmd_script> 1.

Base-8 color on status bar

This is based on the statuscolors patch

You can add \020 to \037 in the xsetroot command to specify different colors:

• \020 to \027 specifies foreground color (color 8 to color 15, normally they are bright variants)
• \030 to \037 specifies background color (color 0 to color 7)

E.g. If you

xsetroot -name " a $(printf "\021\033") b "

Status bar shows a b, with b in red color and yellow background.

Other patches:

These are the patches I applies with few or no modifications:

• Toggle fullscreen with actualfullscreen
• Center and sticky rules
• Per-tag patch
• Focus on click, instead of on hover
• Resize windows at all corners, I also made the resize cursor different accordingly
• Navigation abilities, e.g. shift tags (similar to nextprev), cycle layouts (similar to cyclelayouts), move windows
• Focus on netactive. Rofi's window switching won't work otherwise
• Fixborders patch under alpha, which fixes the transparent border under compositors
• Restart with SIGHUP signal
• Xresources patch
• Systray patch

Key/mouse bindings

• Only window manger related keybindings are in config.h file, like tag/client management.
• Other window manager independent key bindings (such as application launching) are in sxhkd configuration in my dotfiles repo.
• Mouse binding on status bar is dealt with dwm-status script in my dotfiles repo.