dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
This is my personal fork of DWM. Keybinds have been specifically configured for my modded Thinkpad X230, and may need to be changed for your use.
The configuration of dwm is done by editing either config.h/config.def.h
and (re)compiling the source code. It is good practice to back up your working build of dwm and apply patches/modifications to a copy before merging the two.
Also, modifying config.def.h instead of config.h is encouraged, as well as removing the generated config.h file before recompiling, as leaving it will cause dwm to use the leftover config.h from the last update, instead of generating a new one and applying the new patches. But i'm not your dad, so you can do what you want.
Just clone this repo and compile with the following command:
$ make clean install
dwm should put it's binary in /usr/local/bin by default, but if it doesn't work, you can run that command as root too, it's what i do.
Also, a lot of the commands used in my keyboard shortcuts, such as the scrot command i use to take a screenshot uses my user directory:
$ scrot /home/beomus/Pictures/Screenshots/%Y-%m-%d-%T-screenshot.jpg
As you would probably imagine, this will cause some problems if you don't change it to your username. Something I need to do is have dwm automatically pull the username, write it to a variable, and use that as the username in these commands. Or just use ~/ . But (famous last words) this will work for now.
You can find a treasure trove of excellent patches for dwm over at https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/ Credit for those patches goes to their respective authors. I did not write any of the patches used in this fork. (Shit's complicated, and i'm not a C wizard like the suckless devs or the Stanford/MIT gods.) But I intend to contribute when I have the skill and the time to.
Super + Enter | Open ST terminal
Super + l | Lock display with xsecurelock
Super + Shift + t | Open my timetable (image file not included)
Super + b | Open Librewolf Browser
Super + p | Open Volume Control with pulsemixer
Super + m | Open email with thunderbird
Super + Shift + s | Take a screenshot with Scrot
Classic KB Brightness down | Brightness up with xbacklight
Classic KB Brightness down | Brightness down with xbacklight
Depending on your distro, you may need to add your user to a group that gives you write permissions for the files that control screen brightness. Or you can do what i did at first, and just chmod the file like an actual smoothbrain. (do not do that, you might give all users permission to change your screen brightness, which is not an intelligent decision...) ALSO! You may not even have to do anything, as if your backlight is controlled by acpi, it might just work right out of the box. But your mileage may vary.
There are a few 3rd party programs that i've integrated into this fork.
They are included but not limited to:
st As default terminal
xsecurelock For screen locking
xbacklight For backlight control
scrot As screenshot tool
picom As the compositor
thunderbird As default email client
librewolf As default browser
You can install these packages with the appropriate command for your distro.
Arch
$ pacman -S xsecurelock xbacklight scrot picom thunderbird
Debian/Ubuntu
$ apt-get install xsecurelock xbacklight scrot picom thunderbird
Fedora/RHEL/CentOS
$ dnf intall xsecurelock xbacklight scrot picom thunderbird
Void
$ xbps-install xsecurelock xbacklight scrot picom thunderbird
Gentoo
You know what you're doing...
- Librewolf may need to be installed manually for your particular distro. See their website for more details. For arch users, librewolf is available in the AUR as both a binary, and source package.