moonwm
My own outstandingly named Window Manager (by jzbor)
dwm-dynamicswallow-patch
Bring scriptable window swallowing to dwm! (by slavistan)
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moonwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of moonwm.
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Another post on Linux battery performance
I am using my own WM MoonWM, which is based on dwm. It is probably not for everyone, but I think that goes for every WM (also it is probably not as stable as the "big" players). A common first WM is probably i3, but you really just have to try some until you find one that fits.
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DWM "stutters" on media playback on any chromium based browser/app
The main difference compared to other window managers is that in dwm when you switch tags the windows that are not shown are simply moved to a negative x position, whereas in most other window managers the windows become iconified which involves a few more steps like mapping and unmapping the window. I don't think this should make a difference, but there is a build of dwm that iconifies windows when they are hidden rather than moving them to a negative position if you'd like to try that out.
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A DE-Like Tiling Window Manager
You can install instantWM on another distro. I myself wrote MoonWM, which is based on dwm and should support basic DE functionality as well as draging windows with you mouse. If you want to you can give it a try. Although I should also not that it is not as smooth of an experience, as many regular DEs and I don't plan an pushing any updates other than obvious bugfixes in the near future.
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[dwm]: Need help changing setlayout so that it toggle to the previous layout if the current layout is equal to the desired layout
I have this implemented in this commit.
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How does DWM manage menus?
Have a look into dmenu, rofi and xmenu. They are all good at different things. The first two are keyboard driven and support a basic application menu by default. Xmenu is more like a context menu. For the most part you create the menus yourself with scripts. You can pipe stuff into their stdin and get the selected entry via stdout. Here is an example of what I use for my dwm build.
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How can I use Modkey+Ctrl as modifier in dwm?
ControlMask should definitely work though and does so on my build.
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[dwm] Suggest improvements on my build?
Idk, but this is the ginormous list of patches I have applied on my build:
dwm-dynamicswallow-patch
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Dynamic swallow with systray patch
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.
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Surf opening in the same window as ST, how does it work?
You've got some patching to do next weekend. https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/dynamicswallow/
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Combine cfacts and dynamicswallow?
Did you look at the patching instructions on the https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/dynamicswallow/ page? It specifically refers to cfacts.
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Swallow Patch doesn't work with urxvtc/urxvtd [DWM + Flexipatch]
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.
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Can't make my file manager swallow!
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.
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[dwm] Suggest improvements on my build?
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing moonwm and dwm-dynamicswallow-patch you can also consider the following projects:
xmenu - a x11 menu utility
pidswallow - A swallower script using process hierarchy.
patches - Collection of patches for dwm, st and dmenu
jgmenu - An X11 menu
dwm-laptop - My build of Suckless DWM for my laptop.
lf - Terminal file manager
devour - X11 window swallower