cwm
portable version of OpenBSD's cwm(1) window manager (by leahneukirchen)
patches
Collection of patches for dwm, st and dmenu (by bakkeby)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of cwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-02.
- Portable version of OpenBSD's cwm(1) window manager
- FVWM and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop
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Suckless-esque floating WM
If you're looking for something minimal but a tad more featureful than the ~200 SLOC suggestions you may enjoy cwm. It has a tags-like method of grouping/showing windows somewhat like dwm.
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CWM root window button actions
You can see the default bindings for these mouse buttons here https://github.com/leahneukirchen/cwm/blob/linux/conf.c#L263 and can read about what each of those commands do here http://man.openbsd.org/cwmrc.5
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cwm windows menu (exclusions)
As best I can tell by looking at the source for the function that populates the window list, I don't think there's any way to for the menu to ignore items you've tagged ignore.
patches
Posts with mentions or reviews of patches.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-06.
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patch to center tiled windows on the stack
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.
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Anysize leaving gaps in st
I made this patch after that post for reference: https://github.com/bakkeby/patches/wiki/anysize-simple
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How can you set the st geometry offset relative to the screen size as a dwm shortcut
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.
- Make the focusstack feature avoid a certain program.
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tag.restore and tag.noempty
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).
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Patch to improve the zoom function
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.
- patch to separate focus between master and stack areas
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How do you set the width of dmenu to the screen width after application of the xyw patch?
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
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alpha patch makes my dwm doesn't starting
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
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How do I change multi-monitor tag behaviour
I had an example patch for that: dwm-desktop-6.3.diff
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cwm and patches you can also consider the following projects:
fvwm-min - fvwm-min: Functional FVWM config plus classic Unix themes
dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time
sowm - An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).
chadwm - Making dwm as beautiful as possible!
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
dwm-single-tagset-6.2 - single-tagset patch for dwm 6.2
dwm-directionalfocus - Adding directional focus to dwm
rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.
dwm
xlivebg - Live wallpapers for the X window system
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
batteryless-patches - Collection of batteryless gameboy game patches