chadwm (Initial look)

(empty workspaces have their color greyed out)

• NOTE: This is vanilla dwm bar (status2d patch for setting colors) not dwmblocks or polybar.

Tag preview (while hovering tag icon)

simplescreenrecorder-2021-08-03_21.28.49.mp4

Requirements

• dash (shell)
• imlib2
• xsetroot package ( status2d uses this to add colors on dwmbar)
• JetbrainsMono Nerd Font (or any nerd font) and Material design icon font

Setup

• Put the .dwm folder in ~/
• chmod +x all scripts in .dwm folder
• copy the stuff from fonts folder to your ~/.local/share/fonts ( this is for material design icon font )
• cd into chadwm and sudo make install
• autostart file is just an example one so it must be adjusted for your liking!

Run chadwm

• Run the autostart file from .xinitrc or
• Create a desktop entry

touch /usr/share/xsessions/chadwm.desktop  

[Desktop Entry]
Name=chadwm
Comment=dwm made beautiful 
Exec= <path to autostart file> 
Type=Application 

• wallpaper

Credits

• HUGE THANKS to eProTaLT83. I wanted certain features in dwm like tabbar in monocle , tagpreview etc and he implemented my ideas and created patches for me! I cant even count the number of times he has helped me :v
• @fitrh helped with colorful tag patch

Patches

• barpadding
• bottomstack
• cfacts
• dragmfact
• dragcfact (took from bakkeby's build)
• fibonacii
• gaplessgrid
• horizgrid
• movestack
• vanity gaps
• colorful tags
• statuspadding
• status2d
• underline tags
• notitle