Helping a newbie

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/suckless

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  • rofi

    Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

  • But now I just switched to rofi (https://github.com/davatorium/rofi), it does pretty much what you have described.

  • slstatus

    mirror from suckless.org. send patches to [email protected] mailing list. NO PRs

  • For different system monitors, there are also different approaches. I just use `slstatus` (https://github.com/drkhsh/slstatus). I've heard a lot of good stuff about Eww (https://github.com/elkowar/eww) but never tried it myself.

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  • eww

    ElKowars wacky widgets

  • For different system monitors, there are also different approaches. I just use `slstatus` (https://github.com/drkhsh/slstatus). I've heard a lot of good stuff about Eww (https://github.com/elkowar/eww) but never tried it myself.

  • my_dwm_setup

    DWM (Dynamic Window Manager) setup, that works best for me. The following suckless patches included: systray, griidmode, pertag. Additional functions implemented: findwin ([MOD+'] find a window by title using dmenu), run_app ([MOD+p] execute an application from a .desktop files cache), findcurwin ([MOD+Shift+f] find the first tag, containing the currently focused window and switch to it; useful when using grid setup on tag 0 as overview to jump back to a selected window), nexttag ([MOD+,], [MOD+

  • With DWM it is sometimes very helpful to check the others setup and try to get something from them. Here is my setup (pretty basic in terms of style): https://github.com/tentaclius/my_dwm_setup.

  • rhombuses

  • Check this guy's config out, I think it is awesome: https://github.com/Rashad-707/rhombuses

  • dwm-flexipatch

    A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

  • If you find it difficult to apply patches, try out this project: https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch. It comes with all the popular plugins included, you just choose what to compile it with using switches in the config file.

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