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dwm-fox

dwm-fox is my own little fork/configuration of dwm. It is similar to the idea of dwm-sprinkles, only is customised for me. It brings in several changes like XFT, nmaster, a systray, different layouts, compositing/opacity, and a colour scheme I actually like. Whilst it never actually reached the level I wanted it to, I do still use this every single day as my default window manager.

Screenshots

./img/dwm-fox-screeny1.png

Configuration

Configuring dwm (and by extension, dwm-fox) is easy. Just open up your favourite text editor and modify config.h. You’ll need to understand C a little to customise dwm properly. This is by design, but for the sake of practicing documentation, I’ll write a few examples of how you can change it.

Changing the colours

static const char normbordercolor[] = "#";
static const char normbgcolor[]     = "#";
static const char normfgcolor[]     = "#";
static const char selbordercolor[]  = "#";
static const char selbgcolor[]      = "#";
static const char selfgcolor[]      = "#";

Turning off the systray

static const Bool showsystray       = False;     /* False means no systray */

Changing the name of the tags

edit tags[] with the name you want, really easy.

/* very bad example */
static const char *tags[] = { "IRC", "CODE", "MUSIC", "...", "...", "...", "...", "...", "WWW" };

Applying changes

To apply the changes, you need to recompile dwm.

$EDITOR config.mk # modify this so your prefix and option choices are correct.
make
make install # run this AFTER quitting dwm.

Key Bindings

dwm uses a modifier key, dwm-fox by default sets this key to Super.

Bindings

key
action
p
dmenu
Shift + Enter
Spawn `x-terminal`
b
toggle statusbar
j
focus on previous client
k
focus on next client
i
increase number of windows in master area
d
decrease number of windows in master area
h
decrease space for master (mfact)
l
increase space for master (mfact)
Enter
“Zoom” (move to master)
Tab
switch workspaces
C
Kill Client
t
set layout to tile
f
set layout to floating
m
set layout to monocle
y
horizontal tiling
u
horizontal stacking
c
columns broken
Space
set layout
Shift + Space
toggle floating
0
view all clients
Shift + 0
set client to display on all tags
,
Broken
.
Broken
Shift + ,
Broken
Shift + .
Broken
Q
Kill dwm
[1-9]
switch tag
Shift + [1-9]
Move to tag
Ctrl + [1-9]
Toggle on tag
Shift + Control + [1-9]
Toggle and move to tag
Alt + [1-6]
switch layout