dotfiles
~/.* (by jasonliang-dev)
dwm-ipc
A DWM patch that allows IPC communication through a UNIX socket (by mihirlad55)
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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.
dotfiles
Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-28.
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[dwm] It's a chicken
cat: cat
dwm-ipc
Posts with mentions or reviews of dwm-ipc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-24.
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eww bar with dwm
I've never used eww, but I've seen some of the configurations (not in dwm) which use shell commands like wmctrl to change workspaces and such. I believe you could accomplish most of the things you need with dwm-ipc, which has a command-line utility called dwm-msg.
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dwm-ipc: patch does not apply
I'm trying to apply this patch https://github.com/mihirlad55/dwm-ipc for installing https://github.com/mihirlad55/polybar-dwm-module. However patching fails
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multiple status segments with barmodules patch
I've applied the barmodules patch with the hope of controlling multiple status segments via IPC.
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DWM Remove Keyboard and Mouse Support Patch!
mihirlad55 on github did some work on that. Among others, he made an ipc patch for dwm: https://github.com/mihirlad55/dwm-ipc
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[dwm] It's a chicken
If you want to use an external bar with dwm, you should take a look at dwm-ipc. That patch lets you receive tag information which you can pipe into lemonbar.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dotfiles and dwm-ipc you can also consider the following projects:
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
polybar-dwm-module - A dwm module for polybar
dwm
dusk - Just another fork of dwm
lemonbar-xft
dotfiles - My personal dotfiles (emacs, zsh, vim, i3)
ipctool - Simple tool (and library) for checking IP camera hardware
dotfiles - Linux work environment setup
rogue - Personal Emacs config
dusk - Laravel Dusk provides simple end-to-end testing and browser automation.