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dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.

dwm is one of the suckless suite of tools and is only a single binary. It is very lightweight and its source code is intended to never exceed 2000 SLOC.

dwm is customized through editing its source code, which makes it extremely fast and secure — it does not process any input data which isn't known at compile time, except window titles and status text read from the root window's name.

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How do I get rid of horizontal split in dwm

I started using dwm today and am trying to wrap my head around it, as OpenBox is my only other exposure to window managers. As suggested in the official tutorial, I first opened couple of terminals and they all got tiled, with the first terminal…
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Blank Android Studio window in DWM

I recently installed Android Studio on arch linux with DWM. But the initial dialog window, which prompts for starting a new project is blank. The links in this windows work though. I can start a new project by blindly clicking where the new project…
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Configure dwm to automatically open applications

I've just got dwm configured to my liking in terms of colors and tags. I'm just looking for one more thing: the ability to have certain applications automatically start with dwm on certain tags. For example, I have a irc tag, I would like irssi to…
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Transparently run wine programs

When I want to run a wine program I have to type e.g. $ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/TextAloud/TextAloudMP3.exe Would it be possible to run directly TextAloudMP3? I mean not only from command line (I could create alias) but in whole graphical…
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Capturing area of the screen without a Desktop Environment?

I'm running OpenSuse with dwm as a window manager. Since I made the switch from KDE, I haven't found a way to take a screenshot or even capture part of my screen. Is there a way I can do this in a command-line environment?
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Dmenu does not start some programms (e.g., emacs) -- is there a log file?

I'm running dwm with dmenu under Arch Linux. While dmenu is working, it doesn't start some programs, e.g., emacs, although it shows the command with auto-completion. When I start them in the terminal, it works fine. What can I do? Is there an error…
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What kind of notification is Firefox sending when a download has finished?

I'm using the dynamic window manager of suckless (dwm). I noticed that firefox is able to send nice notifications when a download has finished. See the two figures When I'm on a different tag, I get this kind of notification (inverted 1 tag) upon a…
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Unicode characters in uxterm and dwm statusbar

I would like to display Chinese characters in dwm's status bar. More specifically I would like the symbols to represent the different tags in dwm. Using an online converter, I found that the unicode representation for the symbols I want…
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How to prevent my screens from dimming (going black) from the command line

In KDE, there was a system setting where you could specifically set the monitors to never go black. Now I've switched to dwm and (it might not be related) my screens dim after about 10 minutes. How do I change this setting directly from the command…
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"ssh-agent dwm" started from .xinitrc, but environment variables are not set

I got an .xinitrc file with the following line: # it will start my window manager ssh-agent dwm After that I got an ssh-agent process, but environment variables like $SSH_AGENT_PID and $SSH_AUTH_SOCK does not exists when I start a terminal from…
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Custom hotkeys in dwm

I'm trying to create an array of simple hotkeys on my desktop, running OpenSuse with dwm. Things like: Ctrl+E /opt/eclipse/eclipse Can this be configured from within dwm? If not is there an external application which I can run (in the…
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How do I add Xft suppport to dwm?

I would like to use the inconsolata font in dwm's statusbar. Right now my config.h is set up like so using terminus: static const char font[] = "-*-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"; I tried changing that to: static const char font[] =…
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How to get cpu usage for every core with a bash script using standard *nix tools

I'm writing a bash script to print system stats to my dwm status bar using xsetroot. Everything works as expected. What I'm currently missing is an easy way that just uses standard *nix tools to give me the current load for every core on my system…
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current spotify track in dwm status bar

I'm trying to get the current track playing in spotify into my dwm status bar. I got to the point where I get the information with this command. enter code heredbus-send --print-reply --session --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify…
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Remove GNOME and install dwm

I'm currently running Fedora 19 on my PC and I want to remove GNOME and then use dwm. Is it enough when I install dwm and remove GNOME completely?
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