Show off your Dwm configuration!

graph · 2012-07-04 14:41:23

@null (#571)
Could you please post your .Xdefaults? (I'm interested in your color scheme).

Last edited by graph (2012-07-04 14:41:59)

null · 2012-07-04 14:52:45

here you go: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p1124758

tylerlong · 2012-07-20 01:46:18

Mines pretty vanilla, and I would love some tips on making it purdy.

I have conky displaying the current time and track in mpd. If the track title is longer than 15 characters, it scrolls.

Does anyone know how to make a terminal take up all the vertical space it can? (hard to word. the terminal doesn't take all of the screen vertically, which shows my wallpaper.

/* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */

/* appearance */
static const char font[]            = "-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
static const char normbordercolor[] = "#525252";
static const char normbgcolor[]     = "#252627";
static const char normfgcolor[]     = "#A4c9e0";
static const char selbordercolor[]  = "#A4c9e0";
static const char selbgcolor[]      = "#525252";
static const char selfgcolor[]      = "#BBBBBB";
static const unsigned int borderpx  = 1;        /* border pixel of windows */
static const unsigned int snap      = 1;       /* snap pixel */
static const Bool showbar           = True;     /* False means no bar */
static const Bool topbar            = True;     /* False means bottom bar */

/* tagging */
static const char *tags[] = { "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9" };

static const Rule rules[] = {
        /* class      instance    title       tags mask     isfloating   monitor */
        { "Gimp",     NULL,       NULL,       0,            True,        -1 },
        { "Firefox",  NULL,       NULL,       1 << 8,       False,       -1 },
};

/* layout(s) */
static const float mfact      = 0.55; /* factor of master area size [0.05..0.95] */
static const int nmaster      = 1;    /* number of clients in master area */
static const Bool resizehints = True; /* True means respect size hints in tiled resizals */

#include "bstack.c"
#include "bstackhoriz.c"
static const Layout layouts[] = {
        /* symbol     arrange function */
        { "[]=",      tile },    /* first entry is default */
        { "><>",      NULL },    /* no layout function means floating behavior */
        { "[M]",      monocle },
        { "TTT",      bstack },
        { "===",      bstackhoriz },
};

/* key definitions */
#define MODKEY Mod1Mask
#define TAGKEYS(KEY,TAG) \
        { MODKEY,                       KEY,      view,           {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
        { MODKEY|ControlMask,           KEY,      toggleview,     {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
        { MODKEY|ShiftMask,             KEY,      tag,            {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
        { MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, KEY,      toggletag,      {.ui = 1 << TAG} },

/* helper for spawning shell commands in the pre dwm-5.0 fashion */
#define SHCMD(cmd) { .v = (const char*[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, NULL } }

/* commands */
static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-fn", font, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };
static const char *termcmd[]  = { "uxterm", NULL };

static Key keys[] = {
        /* modifier                     key        function        argument */
        { MODKEY,                       XK_p,      spawn,          {.v = dmenucmd } },
        { MODKEY|ControlMask,           XK_Return, spawn,          {.v = termcmd } },
        { MODKEY|ShiftMask,              XK_b,      togglebar,      {0} },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_j,      focusstack,     {.i = +1 } },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_k,      focusstack,     {.i = -1 } },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_i,      incnmaster,     {.i = +1 } },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_d,      incnmaster,     {.i = -1 } },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_h,      setmfact,       {.f = -0.05} },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_l,      setmfact,       {.f = +0.05} },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_Return, zoom,           {0} },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_Tab,    view,           {0} },
        { MODKEY|ShiftMask,             XK_x,      killclient,     {0} },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_t,      setlayout,      {.v = &layouts[0]} },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_f,      setlayout,      {.v = &layouts[1]} },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_m,      setlayout,      {.v = &layouts[2]} },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_b,       setlayout,     {.v = &layouts[3]} },
        { MODKEY|ControlMask,           XK_b,      setlayout,      {.v = &layouts[4]} },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_space,  setlayout,      {0} },
        { MODKEY|ShiftMask,             XK_space,  togglefloating, {0} },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_0,      view,           {.ui = ~0 } },
        { MODKEY|ShiftMask,             XK_0,      tag,            {.ui = ~0 } },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_comma,  focusmon,       {.i = -1 } },
        { MODKEY,                       XK_period, focusmon,       {.i = +1 } },
        { MODKEY|ShiftMask,             XK_comma,  tagmon,         {.i = -1 } },
        { MODKEY|ShiftMask,             XK_period, tagmon,         {.i = +1 } },
        TAGKEYS(                        XK_1,                      0)
        TAGKEYS(                        XK_2,                      1)
        TAGKEYS(                        XK_3,                      2)
        TAGKEYS(                        XK_4,                      3)
        TAGKEYS(                        XK_5,                      4)
        TAGKEYS(                        XK_6,                      5)
        TAGKEYS(                        XK_8,                      7)
        TAGKEYS(                        XK_9,                      8)
        { MODKEY|ShiftMask,             XK_q,      quit,           {0} },
};

/* button definitions */
/* click can be ClkLtSymbol, ClkStatusText, ClkWinTitle, ClkClientWin, or ClkRootWin */
static Button buttons[] = {
        /* click                event mask      button          function        argument */
        { ClkLtSymbol,          0,              Button1,        setlayout,      {0} },
        { ClkLtSymbol,          0,              Button3,        setlayout,      {.v = &layouts[2]} },
        { ClkWinTitle,          0,              Button2,        zoom,           {0} },
        { ClkStatusText,        0,              Button2,        spawn,          {.v = termcmd } },
        { ClkClientWin,         MODKEY,         Button1,        movemouse,      {0} },
        { ClkClientWin,         MODKEY,         Button2,        togglefloating, {0} },
        { ClkClientWin,         MODKEY,         Button3,        resizemouse,    {0} },
        { ClkTagBar,            0,              Button1,        view,           {0} },
        { ClkTagBar,            0,              Button3,        toggleview,     {0} },
        { ClkTagBar,            MODKEY,         Button1,        tag,            {0} },
        { ClkTagBar,            MODKEY,         Button3,        toggletag,      {0} },
};

Fixed, sorry for the big picture.

Last edited by tylerlong (2012-07-20 12:33:19)

ANOKNUSA · 2012-07-20 02:06:54

Looking good, tylerlong. A couple of things:

1) Take a look at the DWM Arch wiki page, especially the section concerning size hints; that should help you take care of that empty space around your terminal window. No guarantee depending on which terminal you use, but it works with most of the popular ones.

2) You'll want to resize your screenshot to fit our image guidlines. Any moment now, a mod is going to come along and take your shot down.

forum rules.

tylerlong · 2012-07-20 12:33:47

ANOKNUSA wrote:

Looking good, tylerlong. A couple of things:
1) Take a look at the DWM Arch wiki page, especially the section concerning size hints; that should help you take care of that empty space around your terminal window. No guarantee depending on which terminal you use, but it works with most of the popular ones.
2) You'll want to resize your screenshot to fit our image guidlines. Any moment now, a mod is going to come along and take your shot down.
forum rules.

Thanks a lot, I'm looking at those now.

edit: My terminal is fixed!

Last edited by tylerlong (2012-07-20 12:37:51)

OK100 · 2012-07-21 18:28:27

Shinryuu · 2012-07-22 08:16:52

OK100 wrote:

http://ompldr.org/tZXRndA

Nice desktop there, are you listening to some compilation/cover album? That song you are listening to is originally done by Blind Guardian.

TimorLee · 2012-07-22 11:26:39

It's Van Canto's cover of the song. Van Canto is a metal acapella group which covers several metal classics. Mainly they are singers of several metal bands that started this as a side project.

xamaco · 2012-07-22 18:28:45

Quiet

Busy

Grid to find back the sh.. spread over all tags. (MOD-0)

I've been using openbox for 2 years. I tested, probably too quickly, several tiling WMs without getting convinced enough to make the jump. To my defense, I must say that my PC is used by several Windozians because it's connected to the living-room big stereo. I don't feel like explaining these people the use of a tiling WM. To make it worst it happens often during evenings where they are more or less drunk (and me too :-).

For the Windozians I put a few launchers in dwm-trayer. It's not the best solution as the little app I wrote to put launchers in the system tray are GTK2 apps with all the overhead it brings.

I need many desktops as I tend to put only one application per tag: What made me fall in love with DWM is the ability to bring in the current tag stuff from other tags (MOD-CTRL-n) and to attach a window to several tags. Dynamic and flexible .

Patches I use :
- grid (to find back all the sh.. I spread on all the tags...)
- nextprevtag
- azerty

I also use a plain conky, urxvt with pseudo transparency, mygtkmenu, terminus font...

My config will probably evolve but right now I'm quite happy with it.

PS: Background image Nasa apod site

Last edited by xamaco (2012-07-22 18:57:29)

dysoco · 2012-07-23 14:33:49

Hello, I'm using DWM because I was looking for a Tiling WM, and I was learning C so I supposed DWM would help me a bit
So far I like it, but there is one problem.

When I resize a "window" in let's say Desktop1 it also resizes the window that is in the same field in Desktop2, and that's a bit annoying.
Is this why is it called a dynamic window manager ?

Is there some kind of patch to change this ? Or any similar WMs that don't do this ? (Configured in C)
Thanks.

kalle97 · 2012-07-23 14:52:45

dysoco wrote:

Hello, I'm using DWM because I was looking for a Tiling WM, and I was learning C so I supposed DWM would help me a bit
So far I like it, but there is one problem.
When I resize a "window" in let's say Desktop1 it also resizes the window that is in the same field in Desktop2, and that's a bit annoying.
Is this why is it called a dynamic window manager ?
Is there some kind of patch to change this ? Or any similar WMs that don't do this ? (Configured in C)
Thanks.

Wrong place to ask, you can probably request a patch here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92895 or since you are learning C you can try make a patch yourself maybe.

Trilby · 2012-07-23 15:24:59

I suspect the pertag patch would "fix" this, but I haven't used it. It is not a problem, that's how dwm works: there are not separate "desktops", just different tags. When you change the layout, you change the layout - you don't resize windows as windows don't really have sizes assigned, they just fill part of the layout.

If you're looking for other WMs, you might like MonsterWM which is very similar to DWM just without a (default/builtin) status bar and with workspaces rather than tags, so it'll do what you intended here.

illusionist · 2012-07-30 18:29:40

Clean:

Messy:

Last edited by illusionist (2012-07-30 19:05:45)

stlarch · 2012-07-30 19:51:56

^^Wow! That is friggin awesome illusionist.^^

Rasi · 2012-07-30 22:16:06

illusionist wrote:

Clean:
http://i.imgur.com/IOFqV.jpg

Messy:
http://i.imgur.com/uSqgq.jpg

Mind sharing your statusbar script?

illusionist · 2012-07-31 17:25:03

@stlarch
thank you mate.

@rasi
it is not any script just some conky configuration with terminus2 font.

conky config --> http://pastebin.com/QWiy9RaJ
terminus2 font --> https://github.com/w0ng/dwm/blob/master/terminus2.bdf

Edit Reason: Bad url.

Last edited by illusionist (2012-07-31 19:54:56)

sprash · 2012-08-01 08:58:11

I made my dwmstatus look like this:

dwmstatus

The important bits are the percentage bars, which are basically unicode characters generated by conky displayed with the fixed font ("-*-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to be precise) and which change their size dynamically according to the percentage.

The same is true for the up and down arrows which only show if something is up or downloaded. If the up and download rate is roughly the same both, up and down arrow will show. This can of course also be used to display the read/write rate of the hard disk as well.

The other "icons" are just obscure unicode characters which I found in the fixed font.

This is realized with a lua script. You will have to activate lua build flags for conky to make this work. If you include the script with "lua_load /home/<user>/.conky.lua" the important functions are ${lua bar $<percentage vlaue>} for the percentage bar and ${lua updown $<up speed per second> $<down speed per second>} for the up and down arrow.

Files:
".conky.lua":

do


function conky_bar(str)
	 str = tonumber(conky_parse(str))
	 return string.char(226, 150, math.floor( 129 + str * 7 / 100 ))
end


function dehumanize(sn)
	 n = string.match(sn, '(%d+)')
	 s = string.match(sn, '(%a+)')

	 if string.upper(s) == "K" then
	    n = n * 1000
	 elseif string.upper(s) == "M" then
	    n = n * 10000000
	 end
	 return tonumber(n)
end


function conky_updown(u, d)
	 u = conky_parse(u)
	 d = conky_parse(d)

	 un = dehumanize(u)
	 dn = dehumanize(d)
	 
	 uparrow = string.char(226,135,167) 
	 doarrow = string.char(226,135,169)

	 ar = "  "
	 st = d

	 if dn > 0 then
	    udd = un / dn
	    if udd == 0 then
	        st = d
	      	ar = " " .. doarrow
	    elseif udd < 0.5 then
	    	st = d
		ar = " " .. doarrow
	    elseif udd > 2 then
	        s = u
	        ar = uparrow .. " "
	    else
		if udd > 1 then
		   st = u
		end
		ar = uparrow .. doarrow
	    end
	 else
	    st = u
	    if un > 0 then
	       ar = uparrow .. " "
	    end
	 end

	 return st .. ar
end


function conky_unispace(str,n)
	 str = conky_parse(str):match'^%s*(.*%S)' or ''
	 return string.rep(" ", n - string.len(str)) .. str
end

end

".conkyrc":

out_to_console yes
out_to_ncurses no
#out_to_x no
 
update_interval 1
update_interval_on_battery 2.0

use_spacer left
if_up_strictness address
short_units yes
#format_human_readable yes

disable_auto_reload
lua_load /home/sprash/.conky.lua

TEXT
❏ ${lua unispace ${cpu cpu0} 2}%${lua bar ${cpu cpu1}}${lua bar ${cpu cpu2}}${lua bar ${cpu cpu3}}${lua bar ${cpu cpu4}}${ibm_temps 0}°C${if_match "$ibm_fan" != "0"} ${ibm_fan}rpm$endif▕ \
☰ $memperc%${lua bar $memperc}${if_match "$swap"!="   0B"} SWP: $swap$endif▕ \
❍ ${fs_used_perc /}%${lua bar ${fs_used_perc /}} ${lua updown ${diskio_read /dev/sda} ${diskio_write /dev/sda}}▕ \
${if_up wlan0}♒ ${lua unispace ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0} 2}%${lua bar ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}} ${wireless_essid wlan0} ${wireless_bitrate wlan0} ${lua updown ${upspeed wlan0} ${downspeed wlan0}}▕ ${endif}\
${if_up eth0}⎓ ${lua updown ${upspeed eth0} ${downspeed eth0}}▕ ${endif}\
♫ $mixer%${lua bar $mixer}▕ \
⁍ ${smapi_bat_perc 0}%${lua bar ${smapi_bat_perc 0}}${smapi_bat_temp 0}°C${if_match "${smapi_bat_power 0}" != "0.0" } ${lua unispace ${smapi_bat_power 0} 5}W$endif${if_empty $battery_time}$else ${lua unispace $battery_time 10}$endif▕ \
◷ ${time %a %d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S}

*Edit image problems

Last edited by sprash (2012-08-01 09:07:05)

es20641 · 2012-08-01 13:52:10

sprash, that is beautiful! As soon as I get home I'm going to try it out. Thanks a lot!

sunderphon · 2012-08-05 15:29:35

I'm sort of new to DWM, but this is what I have

Dzen config is a heavily modified version of this http://dotshare.it/dots/294/
"Pipes" terminal color script here

Last edited by sunderphon (2012-08-05 15:30:12)

domac · 2012-08-06 23:30:08

Hey, I encountered some problem as I wanted to patch my dwm with that systray script… always giving me errors… does anyone have an idea how to fix it or knows a workaround? Patching it still works, but when it comes to recompile there is an error due to missing variable instantiation and I don't really know what to do…
Help is appreciated!
Thanks.

jasonwryan · 2012-08-06 23:36:35

thread title wrote:

Show off your Dwm configuration!

This isn't a support thread. You are better off asking the maintainer of the patch about any errors...

Trilby · 2012-08-07 00:04:15

domac, you could also start a new thread for that issue, several of us would probably be willing, and possibly able, to help.

domac · 2012-08-07 09:48:57

Ok, I'm sorry! I'll will share a screen as soon as I fixed it!
Thank you Trilby!

Edit: Fixed it, Screens to come… ;-)

Last edited by domac (2012-08-07 11:12:20)

ivoarch · 2012-08-07 12:13:37

?

Last edited by ivoarch (2012-08-17 20:32:09)

domac · 2012-08-07 13:35:47

Finally…
…and another one…
Here it is, I'm sorry for asking that question above.

Last edited by domac (2012-08-07 19:12:13)

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