[10c] | DWM: Status Bar Customization

[@aaronbaynard2326]

Thank you for providing great content and sharing your knowledge. One year ago I started my arch linux journey, and your channel has been most helpful. Initially I didn't understand some of the concepts that you were using, but I took some time away and came back and you answered so many questions that I had and still have. Please continue doing what you are doing and thank you.

[@heartygoooner]

Great series thanks Ermanno!.. brings back memories of figuring all this stuff out way back when I used dwm.. your videos would've been a godsend back then! If I ever decide to go back I know it will be a lot easier following your tutorials... can see your channel taking off massively, its much better than the big ones I know of out there imo. You cut through all the bs and just get to the point with concise accurate content! That's invaluable in this day and age of information overload!

[@eflinux]

Thank you so much Henry! Really appreciate it!

[@JavierPerez-ns8wo]

Thank you so much! After this 3 tutorial series I’m ready to dive in with swim and customise my workflow while keeping it light and simple.

[@datamuddler894]

Beyond any doubt the best Linux channel out there. Even if I wasn't a Linux enthusiast and pathological tweaker it would be a pleasure to watch Ermanno teaching tons of things.

[@bohemaxxtum]

Hi, Ermanno.Greetings from Turkey.Just wanted to say you how useful your tutorials and how you are so keen, passionate on teaching and sharing your knowledge.Thanks a lot.You are the best.

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@anshsrivastava1059]

If your audio keys do not work, make sure to use the right sink number instead of 0. It was 3 for me.

[@legymhueck9271]

Glad you showed how the media keys work. For some reason, however, the pactl command did not work (although I installed the packages and pactl was found when running it in the command line). After fiddling much, I first realized that there must only be one command inside the " ". Then I tested whether my media keys were actually working - which they did. Now my command looks like this: static const char *upvol[] = { "amixer", "set", "Master", "10%+", NULL}; static const char *downvol[] = { "amixer", "set", "Master", "10%-", NULL }; static const char *mutevol[] = { "amixer", "-D", "pulse", "set", "Master", "1+", "toggle", NULL };

[@eflinux]

Make sure you install the alsa-utils package. I installed this on a vanilla arch from previous tutorials so it should be working.

[@MirkoDiTV]

Thanks Ermanno! I've been trying to move to Arch + DWM lately but I struggled a lot. Loved this tutorial, keep it up!

[@guerbaierix2715]

Very cool video, thanks! Just wanna know how to change terminal font size like you did in the video?

[@nielsroetert]

I'm still trying to figure out Git after your previous video, but this is fun too. Thanks as always.

[@eflinux]

Thanks a little getting used to git, but it’s fun :)

[@zc0rp10]

Problems with icon size? I had some issues with getting the icons working & same size and ended up having to add the Awesome-Fonts and styling for them individually in my dwm-6.2 config.h to make it work. This is what did the trick in the end; static const char *fonts[] = { "monospace:size=12", "FontAwesome5Brands:size=10:antialias:true", "FontAwesome5Free:size=10:antialias:true", "FontAwesome5Free:style=Solid:size=10:antialias:true"};

[@eflinux]

Good point. Depending how you want to set them up you can definitely put the fonts in config.h file. I actually showed in the video what possibilities there are tu customize dwm, but if you’d see my personal dwm install you’d be surprised how minimalist it is :)

[@anikbiswasarnob]

Thanks a lot for this video, currently I'm using the slstatus but I really don't like it much. I'm going to find another for me.

[@YanYhn]

Hey Ermanno, thanks for the Video. But i have an issue about the dwm_resources.sh. It shows me the STO but not the Memory and Cpu. Can you help me?

[@Fine_but_not_dandy]

A Linux binge is so much easier with Ermanno. Concepts are interpreted and retained easily with these tutorials. Thank you!!

[@LarsDeTorquemada]

According to your recommendations, everything turned out to be installed without problems. thanks 😊

[@eflinux]

Great to hear!

[@dmitrybarkovskyi3957]

@@eflinux how to add fonts in vim like you ? When you added in config bar symbol from awesome fonts , he show in your terminal without problem. Thanks for answer.:)

[@eflinux]

Usually I’d install the fonts and that’s it. But for them to appear correctly in the terminal you need to reboot the machine.

[@dmitrybarkovskyi3957]

@@eflinux whatever i did and i installed alacritty try using vim , and anything it's not work

[@dmitrybarkovskyi3957]

And try reinstall system and nothing

[@jpsosiego]

Hi Ermanno, great video, thanks, how can we get more icons for workspaces, for example for Brave, Gimp, Inkscape?

[@eflinux]

You can follow the same process done for the other workspaces. You can get the icons from the Font Awesome Cheatsheet.

[@jpsosiego]

@@eflinux thanks, yes, I looked at font awesome cheat sheet, but there aren't for this programs. How can we make or convert icons that aren't on font awesome cheat sheet to use in workspaces?

[@eflinux]

I am not aware of any other way. I just checked the Brave icon does not yet exist, so I'd probably choose a generic icon until we get updates. I know the Brave has been requested many times to the developers.

[@jpsosiego]

@@eflinux thank you 👍🏽

[@eflinux]

No problem!

[@ismaeltakahashi6441]

As always fantastic video, even I won't use DWM, I learnt a lot by watching it. I look forward to watching the video on Swaywm in the future.

[@eflinux]

Hey thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@ashishthapa529]

Thank You... I completed dwm install with you and managed my shortcut with sxhkd. Now i have i3 and dwm with same shortcut. and i like it.. i'll dive deep into dwm while my i3 is with me if something goes wrong. :)

[@eflinux]

Glad it helped!

[@ashishthapa529]

@@eflinux Yes... you did a lot.... Not kidding.. with your tutorials everything looks easy.. :) keep making awesome contents.

[@eflinux]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that :)

[@ramonoxis]

Thank you so much for this series. For some reason, dwm just won't show any of the status alternatives you show. First I started dwm from a TTY with the startx command and my xinit file and it didn't work. Then, I created a dwm.desktop file for lightdm, kept editing modules and xinit and all that and the status simply won't change. What can I do? :/

[@eflinux]

Hi Ramon, if id didn't work with the .xinitrc file then there must be some kind of errors, probably typos. The same for status bar.

[@ramonoxis]

@@eflinux Since I had lightdm, apparently I needed to start it via .xprofile, even if I wanted to do it on another TTY. But that caused other problems since every time I started other wm, it loaded said wm but with dwm status bar. Even patching it with autostart did not solve it completely. Anyway, I'll probably have to wipe somethings and start from a clean Arch install. I've been running ArchLabs for over a year now and it's time to go full minimal dwm style. :D

[@whoisYoges]

hey Ermano Thanks for awesome video & can you help me to enable tap to touch and reverse scrolling touchpad options in dwm for laptop

[@eflinux]

You can see here for a solution: bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=240950

[@SamSam-df4xp]

Nice! Like I said earlier. I am not a big fan of suckless tools but I still watched it only it was your video. As always, you have great content! Keep going! Will do what I can to support.

[@eflinux]

Thanks! I really appreciate that :)

[@zoltan1953]

Can you please update this tutorial?

[@DanielAlvarez-rq5vu]

Archlinux tutorial with Qtile please.

[@eflinux]

I’ll definitely cover qtile a little later.

[@DanielAlvarez-rq5vu]

@@eflinux Thank you, I will be looking forward to that video, Keep up your videos are excellent and the importance you give to your Subs is valued too much.

[@eflinux]

Thank you, I believe interacting with you guys is as important as making the videos, especially with tutorials :)

[@fioletowa.samara2588]

how to make xrdb patch working?

[@eflinux]

I haven’t installed that one. But I guess it’s the same procedure like other patches. When the normal procedure doesn’t work you’ll have to patch manually.

[@fioletowa.samara2588]

EF - Tech Made Simple I mean Installed it without any issues but colours aren’t changing at all

[@eflinux]

As I said I don’t know this patch, so I can’t really say.

[@brunoorlandin1527]

Hello Ermano, thank you for the tutorial! I'm a new suckless software user. When I install the alpha patch on the st terminal, everything goes fine the patch is sucessfull, I copy the config.def.h to config.h and then make clean and it goes fine, but when I quit and open st again the patch isnt applyed and there is no transparacy. Do you know what it could be? Thanks

[@eflinux]

Hi Bruno, that's strange. Did you download and compile all config files in your home directory?

[@brunoorlandin1527]

@@eflinux I downloaded the alpha patch on the st.0.8.3 directory. Which files shuoul I download in the home directory? Thanks for the answer

[@brunoorlandin1527]

I downloaded st in the home directory and then unziped and ran make clean install

[@brunoorlandin1527]

I solved it. For some reason I didnt have the picom compositor installed anymore. Installed again and it worked.

[@eflinux]

Great! Glad you sorted it out!

[@sunaynanagpal]

Please make videos on qtile window manager also please beacuse your videos are easy to understand and good or please make video on awesomewm please make video on any one of them

[@eflinux]

I will :)

[@sunaynanagpal]

@@eflinux very very thank you man👍👍👍 .Wish you get more subscribers

[@eflinux]

Thanks! And thanks for being there!

[@darrenrichard998]

Can you use a greeter like lightdm with dwm, reason I ask is I'm not ready to go full time into a WM so I want to install xfce as well. It took me 2 attempts today to get Arch installed on my new machine but I got there in the end. Great video as always :)

[@eflinux]

Yes definitely!

[@darrenrichard998]

Ok cool I wasn't sure because you was editing the xinitrc file alot would I still have to install xinit?

[@eflinux]

No you don’t need that.

[@zc0rp10]

Installed one today to help me handle the optimus-manager switching on my laptop without any headache. sudo paman -S lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter There are other greeters you can use. Look at the lightdm entry on wiki.archlinux.org if you want something fancier. Then you need to add create /usr/share/xsessions/dwm.desktop so LightDM can start DWM for you. See this post for details to put in it: forum.manjaro.org/t/dwm-not-showing-in-lightdm-log-in-screen/98220/4?u=zc0rp10 Then in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf I added these lines: greeter-session = lightdm-gtk-greeter greeter-session = lightdm-gtk-greeter session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession They're already in the file, just need to be commented and then you add your option after the "=".

[@teixeirah1643]

Awesome!

[@temporalap4437]

thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! new subscriber. Keep it up

[@eflinux]

Thank you so much!

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

Could you make some tutorials about configuring Dunst in i3 ?

[@eflinux]

Hi, eventually yes, sometime in the future.

[@nuoyan7111]

how to restart startx ?

[@eflinux]

If you are back in the console just retype startx.

[@nuoyan7111]

EF - Tech Made Simple I will not back？how do you do in video？

[@eflinux]

mod+shift+q

[@nuoyan7111]

EF - Tech Made Simple thanks！

[@azulfenix7]

This is the worst tiling manager, it has too much work, the others are simpler and those patches always give errors, bspwm is great simple and really really easy to set up and fast