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number3

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 22

DWM replacement

After using DWM for awhile I've grown sick of recompiling it every time I want to make a change. Is there any alts that have the same functionality?

ploxiln

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Registered: 2006-10-27

Posts: 50

Re: DWM replacement

xmonad and wmii are similar I think. I like wmii, it uses config files. "awesome" is a dwm spinoff which adds a bunch of features the suckless.org community doesn't want (like config files) and it's here: http://awesome.naquadah.org/

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: DWM replacement

I found this very odd at first, but recompiling dwm and restarting is so fast that it's not a big problem. Just a few commands.
And generally, as the time goes, you edit it less and less.

I just thought you could make a one line command for doing it, and put it as an alias. Probably far from bullet proof, but seems to work :

alias editdwm="pushd share/app/dwm && vim config.h && make && sudo make install && killall dwm && popd"

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number3

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 22

Re: DWM replacement

Do you know if fibonacci patch is going to be upgraded to support the new release?

What is an alias?

Last edited by number3 (2007-10-23 18:50:32)

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: DWM replacement

Do you know if fibonacci patch is going to be upgraded to support the new release?

I ported it to dwm-4.6 , keeping the fibonacci.c file and posted it on the ML :
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window%2dmanagers.dwm

But I just checked the wiki page, and someone now updated it for both 4.5 and 4.6 :
http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm/patches/fibonacci

These two patches add the code directly to dwm.c . But that's alright. Maybe that's even the best way finally

What is an alias?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_%28Unix_shell%29

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number3

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 22

Re: DWM replacement

I don't see dwm 4.6 on suckless... am I missing something?

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: DWM replacement

the mercurial branch

btw sick of the 2 secs compiling dwm doesnt sound really sane.. u could 've found a better excuse

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number3

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 22

Re: DWM replacement

the mercurial branch

btw sick of the 2 secs compiling dwm doesnt sound really sane.. u could 've found a better excuse

Well the thing is that I don't know much code and when it throws an error at me that I have no idea how to fix it sorta gets you just wanting to say forget it.

F

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Registered: 2006-10-09

Posts: 322

Re: DWM replacement

But I just checked the wiki page, and someone now updated it for both 4.5 and 4.6 :
http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm/patches/fibonacci

Fibonacci finally out for 4.5 WOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!

I have been bitching about this patch for ages in #dwm. Glad it finally made its way over

Last edited by F (2007-10-25 05:50:12)

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: DWM replacement

But I just checked the wiki page, and someone now updated it for both 4.5 and 4.6 :
http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm/patches/fibonacci

Fibonacci finally out for 4.5 WOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!

I have been bitching about this patch for ages in #dwm. Glad it finally made its way over

Btw, 4.6 is out now. But well, fibonacci is already ready for that version, so you should still be happy

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Phenax

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Registered: 2007-01-07

Posts: 21

Re: DWM replacement

Awesome

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