patches VS dusk

It would be possible to have gaps by default without wasting space, they would just be smaller. Current gaps patches waste even more space than 'resizehints = 0'. This patch appears to be a big challenge, but it would be very interesting to see it done. Something like the centered_size_hints patch but with better space/cpu usage would already be great.

I made this patch after that post for reference: https://github.com/bakkeby/patches/wiki/anysize-simple

I'd recommend that you have a look at the floatrules patch and alternatively if you need percentages then I have another patch called floatpos.

As for 1. you may want to consider toggletag which is a one-line patch which makes it so that when you do MOD+1 to move to tag 1 and if you do MOD+1 again then it moves you back to the previous tag (5 in the example case).

I believe the zoomswap, stacker and restrictfocus patches could help solving this problem. The functions needed to be changed probably are zoom and maybe pop. I tried to figure it out, but couldn't since I don't know C right now. But hopefully the information on this post can help, so one can fix it if he can and wants to.

You may also want to consider applying the barpadding patch for dwm into dmenu, this is easier to do than it sounds. I created an example patch a while back: https://github.com/bakkeby/patches/wiki/barpadding

It's difficult to make alpha and systray patches sing together. Use bakkeby patch that does them both: https://github.com/bakkeby/patches/blob/master/dwm/dwm-alpha-systray-6.3_full.diff

I had an example patch for that: dwm-desktop-6.3.diff

Find it at: https://github.com/bakkeby/dusk

That is the conclusion I arrived at as well and I happened to write up a guide for how to add that: How_to_add_host_specific_configuration

Just to give a heads up I added a new feature SemiScratchpad that allows for normal windows to be temporarily pulled into view like a scratchpad, but when they are toggled away they go back to where they were before rather than simply vanishing like normal scratchpads do.

Dusk is a Tiling Window Manager created by u/bakkeby He also made dwm-flexipatch where you can manage most of dwm's tags. Later he created dusk, a twm with lots of dwm functions in it but without the need to ever patch it again. Dusk is very flexible and well documented. Also Dusk is actively maintained and rock solid. You can find all about dusk here: https://github.com/bakkeby/dusk Good starting point is the Wiki! Have fun with this great windowmanager!

I tried stealing borrowing some stuff from bakkeby's dusk, which does something similar, but I cant seem to get it to work.

dwm with a few tweaks :)