mydwm

This repository contains patches and configuration options for building dwm to suit my preferences and needs. All patches in the "patches" folder starting with "00" can be cleanly applied to dwm independent of any other patches, and patches with "+" symbols in the file name are patches used to make patches that could not otherwise coexist work together.

The most important targets supported by the Makefile are:

• dwm: Fetch the dwm source code, apply patches and build the executable. This is the default target when no targets are specified as command line arguments. The file "build.mk" file is copied into the dwm repository as "config.mk" before compiling dwm. It was renamed so "config.h" could be autocompleted after typing a single character.

• apply: Use patch(1) to apply all files in the "patches" directory ending in ".diff" to the dwm tree.

• clean: Revert the dwm source tree using git reset --hard.

• cleaner: Delete the local copy of the dwm source code repository.

• sanity: Verify that all patches starting with "00" can be applied to dwm independent of any other patches. Executing this target will not automatically download the dwm source code.

Patch Set

Standalone

Better Borders

File: 00-better-borders.diff

Remove the border when there is just one window visible. Unlike some of the other dwm border patches, my patch uses a more generic approach that means no changes need to the made to code of individual layout functions provided the layout doesn't do things like stack / obscure windows.

Click to Focus

File: 00-click-to-focus.diff

Window focus is only changed by clicking instead of hovering. Unlike the focusonclick patch, the MODKEY mouse actions all remain functional with this patch applied.

Custom Rules Hook

File: 00-custom-rules-hook.diff

This change allows users to define more complex constraints than what the "rules" array allows by; the user creates a function named "ruleshook" in "config.h" that will be executed at the end of "applyrules" for every window dwm manages.

Hide Vacant Tags

File: 00-hide-vacant-tags.diff

Hides tags that are not selected and contain no windows.

Eliminate Reordering Caused By _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW

File: 00-no-reordering-from-net-active-window.diff

Some poorly behaved applications (Steam, Chromium) unnecessarily emit a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW event when focused or clicked causing dwm to pop the window and re-order the window list. This patch changes dwm's behaviour so _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW events result in "focus" being called on a window without popping it to prevent unwanted reordering.

Regular Expression Rules

File: 00-regex-rules.diff

Makes all of the window rule attributes that accept strings use regular expressions for matching text.

Select Previous Window

File: 00-select-previous-window.diff

Switch focus from the current window to whichever window was previously selected. This patch adds a timestamp to each window that is set to the current time whenever a window is focused. The "previous window" is defined as the window with the highest timestamp of the currently visible but unfocused windows.

Implementation of "seturgent" Function

File: 00-seturgent-function.diff

Adds a new function called "seturgent" for setting XUrgencyHint.

SIGHUP to Quit

File: 00-sighup-to-quit.diff

Adds a signal handler for SIGHUP that causes dwm to shutdown cleanly.

Smaller Clickable Tag-Bar Area

File: 00-smaller-clickable-tag-bar-area.diff

Ensures that mouse actions on the window title area of the status bar are only registered if they happen in the top half of the tag bar. This is to reduce the amount of accidental window closures caused by attempts to middle-mouse browser tabs.

System Tray

File: 00-systray.diff

Implements system tray for dwm.

Tag Rules

File: 00-tag-rules.diff

Adds a new set of rules that can be used to set the layout, nmaster and mfact values when certain tags are active.

Urgent Tag Color

File: 00-urgent-tag-color.diff

Additional color option to specify the color of tags containing windows with urgency hints.

Visibility Removes Urgency

File: 00-visibility-removes-urgency.diff

Removes urgency hint from any window that is visible. This will not reset most applications' internal urgency states which means things like tray icons may stay active even though a window's urgency hint has been removed.

Window Attachment Priority

File: 00-window-attachment-priority.diff

Adds an additional option to the window rules that allows specification of a window's attachment priority. A window with a given attachment priority will always be attached above windows with a lower attachment priority and cannot be zoomed above a window with a higher priority.

Dependent

More Extended Window Manager Hints

File: 10-more-ewmhs.diff

Dependencies:

• 00-no-reordering-from-net-active-window.diff
• 00-systray.diff

This patch adds support for _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS, _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP, _NET_WM_DESKTOP and _NET_CLOSE_WINDOW so dwm can be manipulated with tools like wmctrl. Because of how dwm tags work, there is not a one-to-one mapping of tag numbers and desktop numbers. For example, if a window is on tags 1 and 3 (indexed from 1) in dwm, wmctrl will report the window as being on desktop 5: 2^(1 - 1) + 2^(3 - 1).