dwm-dynamicswallow-patch VS jgmenu

Hello! I am trying to apply dynamic swallow and systray patches at the same time, but there is a serious conflict in logic which I am not sure how to resolve correctly. Dynamic swallow adds swallow handling to destroynotify() and unmapnotify() using it's own wintoclient2, whereas systray uses default dwm logic with wintoclient. Dumbest way to fix that is to simply add original if ((c = wintoclient(ev->window))) to dynamic swallow logic, but it seems as not very efficient solution. So I wonder, what would be the right approach to make it work? Thank you in advance.

You've got some patching to do next weekend. https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/dynamicswallow/

Did you look at the patching instructions on the https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/dynamicswallow/ page? It specifically refers to cfacts.

I would assume that the dynamicswallow would work. As far as I understand it is a manual swallower (I guess similar to manual tiling window managers) where you need to make decisions about which windows to swallow and when.

It may be that the dynamicswallow patch will allow you to do this but as far as I understood it you need to make a conscious choice about when to swallow and not using this patch.

dynamicswallow. I dare you. I'll push the patch to the suckless webpage this week, there's just a tiny piece of documentation to add.

Aside from the obvious uses - command line scripts - you can also do quite a bit with the GUI. Check out Yad for bash script GUI. X11 related tools like wmctrl, xdotool allow you to create spectacular scripts. I write and use numerous dynamic menus created with bash + jgmenu.

rofi or dmenu are often used and I can recommend them too. These programs are graphical that can be used to build your own menu with a few options and arguments. They also have some functionality to show you installed programs on your system and execute it. Qtile itself have such a functionality too: DmenuRun . And there is a menu program that will list applications like KDE startmenu with categories does in example: jgmenu

If you want a working alternative, I use jgmenu. It's pretty light. https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu

It's jgmenu!

It is worth adding that Johan is also the author of an excellent jgmenu. So labwc is a serious project led by a great developer. https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu

For a start menu similar to what you'd have in Windows, you can use something called jgmenu which you can read more about here https://jgmenu.github.io/. To get a start button for jgmenu, you can add a button to tint2 and bind it to jgmenu, you can select an icon, place text for it, or do both.