dwm-flexipatch VS dwmblocks-async

However, if I were to implement something like 15+ patches then i would just use flexi patch to quickly apply patches - https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch.

I posted an issue with flexipatch's savefloats patch https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch/issues/362 which I believe to be a bug in the way the patch is supposed to handle layout switching.

Check out dwm-flexipatch!

And if you want a quick way to install patches then you should checkout u/bakkeby 's https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch.

do yourself a favor and use https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch ... patching with much less trouble

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.

if your not scared of changing basic C files the most lightweight you’ll get is probably dwm, try out this to more easily patch dwm if you do decide to use it.

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

Depends. There are several dwmblocks implementations floating around. I use https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/dwmblocks-async and it has a signal per block that can be sent with pkill to rerun the script.

Maybe some day I'll finish configuring dwm/dwl and dwmblocks/somebar+someblocks and use it, but even then XFCE will always be my fallback.

Ah yes, correct. The dwmblocks-async author says statuscmd is needed on https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/dwmblocks-async for clickable blocks. I did pull that in a while ago into my dwm code, but forgot that it's only needed there for clicking. Good call!

I recommend you to use this version of dwmblocks: https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/dwmblocks-async

https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/dwmblocks-async is very nice.

currently i use dwmblocks-async with this configuration:

As these were not hindrances to my work, I've had these on the back burner for quite some time, until today when I humbly present to you dwmblocks-async. It fixes the above-mentioned issues by doing the following: