dwm-flexipatch VS eww

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.

You can check eww too, but it will replace the Qtile bar

You can easily pair it with eww and rofi-menu (Install that on your Xubuntu, now) https://elkowar.github.io/eww/ https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

If you don't like the looks of WM's even if you replaced the bar with something more blingy like eww: https://github.com/elkowar/eww then you simply should not waste your time by banging your head into the wall.

the panel is made with eww, here is

I meant this.

Interesting. Will check it out, thanks. But at the moment Eww/Elkowars Wacky Widget seems to check more boxes.

I'm using Hyprland+Waybar+Eww. But there is an issue for system tray.

I'm seriously considering finally making the move to Wayland soley because of Hyprland. I used SWAY a bit awhile back, but ended up ditching it because I couldn't get HiDPI scaling working right. Currently, I run a mix of LeftWM and BSPWM. I had been following the (Hyprland) project for awhile, but just recently saw a page in their wiki on the "Dwindle Layout", which supposedly splits like BSPWM. I recently switched from polybar to eww which is suppose to work on Wayland too, which would reduce the need for re-ricing a bit. IMHO, the bottom line for those of us who prefer to avoid running full DEs, I think wlroots is going to make or break Wayland.