dwm-flexipatch VS dwl

and i would recommend to use dwm-flexipatch, it makes the hole patching process very easy, and you can try out all the patches...

I just wanted to add that if anyone is experiencing this issue and using dwm-flexipatch then enabling the patch BAR_NO_COLOR_EMOJI_PATCH may solve the issue.

a lot of functionality can be added with patches, but you have to try and juggle those all yourself (and work out any conflicts between them yourself) - there are some projects like dwm-flexipatch to try and make it easier to deal with them, but it's way more trouble than I am interested in

To better understand how statuscmd works, I took a step back and decided to try some experimentation before patching my own build: I compiled dwm-flexipatch (obviously with BAR_DWMBLOCKS_PATCH and BAR_STATUSCMD_PATCH set to 1), and tried it with my patched dwmblocks and modified one of my statusbar scripts accordingly for testing purpose:

https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch https://github.com/bakkeby/st-flexipatch

How easy is to configure and build suckless software like DWM? (more specifically, building DWM using flexipatch

I don't think I ever made a standalone patch for this, but you can derive what needs to be changed if you grep the dwm-flexipatch code base for PERTAG_VANITYGAPS_PATCH and have a look at what the changes are.

I like and use dwm but it was becoming an overkill for me to mix and match patches, plus updating of dwm from git, I started using dwm-flexipatch from bakkeby, which I suggest you to try. He's incorporated many patches - all the ones I needed where there, which can be enabled/disabled very easily. A drawback is the config.h file: It's a bit intimidating at first, because it includes the possible options of all patches, enabled or not.

Use dwm-flexipatch

There's a python script called stacki3 that works both on i3wm and sway. There is also a dwm clone for wayland called dwl.

I currently use dwl which is much, much lighter than i3 and suits my needs. On my laptop I just don't have a window manager of any kind installed, I can get by with lynx and the TTY.

I wanted to try two wayland compositors out (specifically dwl and river) and cannot for the life of me seem to get it working properly. I am currently doing this inside a VirtualBox vm.

If you want to surf the wave of future and use Wayland, then Dwm isn't possible. There's DWL but I never tried it. https://github.com/djpohly/dwl

Well once its "finished" (all problems with screenshare and so on finally resolved) im thinking of switching from dwm to dwl

awesomewm is more-or-less dwm with a lua interpreter and a config loader bolted on. someone has already made dwl, a wayland port of dwm: https://github.com/djpohly/dwl

the codebase is very similar to dwm. some dwm patches can even be applied directly.

i think the 'difficult' work has already been done.

lightweight? dwl - last update: 4 days ago. https://github.com/djpohly/dwl

Not really. There are surprising number of wms missing from there, especially wayland compositors, including the one I'm using river(wm). Very surprised not see wayfire or dwl either.