A First Look At ArcoLinux With Dwm

ArcoLinux recently released a new version (20.11.9). This release is the first one to offer a dwm edition of ArcoLinuxB. Since I love both Arco and dwm, I had to check this out.
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[@kidgoldenarm]

Running ArcoLinux with AwesomeWM. Love it! Erik DuBois is da man!

[@lumicide3_9]

17:40 You can shift positions by default in dwm; super-enter will swap the current selection to the master, and the master will become the next in the stack.

[@1Schueni]

I think I already told you in one of your older videos about dwm, that it is possible to move clients around even without a patch. The function is called zoom. It moves the selected client to the master area and pushes the previous master back to the stack. The default keybinding for this is Mod+Return.

[@scorch855]

Damn bro the timing, I installed this build on a couple of my machines last night

[@Jeff_Seely]

The foundation of my office desktop computer is ArcoD and it is absolutely a stroke of pure genius! What a fresh way of going about setting up in Arch Linux system! I'm not worthy!!!

[@hydejel3647]

Distrotube: **hype** new version of Arco linux - dwm released! Also Distrotube: Removes it and install their own version of dwm.

[@thenextpoetician6328]

Yup. That's the point. My Arco i3 is so far from default you wouldn't know how it originated.

[@eddyecho]

Yea theres really no point running anything but vanilla when the distro defaults are so crappy.

[@thenextpoetician6328]

@Adam Hughes That's where all the fun is after all.

[@eddyecho]

@Adam Hughes Why not just install vanilla arch then? Why even bother with arco?

[@MrRenanwill]

​@@eddyecho As a Debian user I would agree but Arco has a graphical interface for installing programs and most of the work is done graphically. =) To push way farther, why not Gentoo, then?

[@JeanMardinou]

I’ll def give this a shot tomorrow when I’m setting up an old laptop.

[@MissourHanzai]

I am still wondering when they'll include a LARBS option.

[@thenextpoetician6328]

That's for users to find on their own. Not that hard. Sway is +/- next on the list, btw.

[@jhondoux84]

No real reason to, its so easy anyway

[@arcolinux5876]

arcolinuxiso.com/using-carli-3-to-install-larbs-or-lukes-auto-rice-bootstrapping-scripts/ - already documented whether it is on Arch Linux or ArcoLinux - same thing

[@WafflesOinc]

Erik made some videos about LARBS and ArcoLinux

[@Person1873]

Hi Derek The basic build of DWM does have a way to cycle a window to master. I believe it defaults to mod+space to promote the currently focussed window to master

[@alejandromadail]

both font configuration lines are by default in dwm

[@kaosfang6907]

I used Arco bspwn, Arco is still a very impressive distro.

[@nebulium6641]

isnt it jus an arch installer?

[@kaosfang6907]

@@nebulium6641 Yes, a user friendly arch installer.

[@nebulium6641]

@@kaosfang6907 Arch wiki seems pretty friendly but ok

[@kaosfang6907]

@@nebulium6641 If you like base arch use it, im not saying base arch is bad just said im impressed this distro.

[@himanshushukla787]

Hey DT I finally got the hang of suckless software and successfully patched all the things that I felt needed on xubuntu. All because of your trying out dwm videos

[@MyurrDurr]

Afaik, you need to run their "skel" command to get their configuration for dwm.

[@pfv3462]

I only have 1 big problem, I can't find the option to use an azerty keyboard anywhere! a = q, z = w but what is the m? I can't work like that! if I can't install an azerty keyboard I won't be able to use this AcroLinux! otherwise, the installation was easy and it looks good

[@DistroTube]

The creator of Arco Linux (Erik Dubois) has a KZbin channel with thousands of video about Arco. I know he's done videos specifically about changing from QWERTY to AZERTY. Just do a search on his channel.

[@flipflopski2951]

Thanks... I'm going back to Windows 7 now...

[@_jdfx]

The installer is cool but it comes pre-installed with a lot of extra stuff, and it takes a while to install. would be nice to have a more "default/basic" install without any custom themes or extra softwares. Manjaro xfce minimal installs under 4:30 mins on my old SSD.

[@Diddelmann]

For me, arco linux awesome is the best window manager

[@bogdanlupu3679]

I think I will try Arco(GNU/)LINUX 😊 on one of my laptops. The Installer looks good for me

[@AndersJackson]

Skreenkey would be useful, as you are demonstrating a lot.

[@sebascm7278]

That’s Linux right there, problem after problem until you get it right.

[@jejo2057]

🤣🤣 your password is (dt)

[@eherrmann01]

Hey DT! I've been using Linux for a few years now, and after watching several of your videos about tiling WMs, I finally decided to get off the *buntu DE merry-go-round and installed Arcolinux with I3. Wow! No more cascading menus, and so much easier to operate. My life just got a whole lot better. Thanks man.

[@micaiahflores1592]

This actually drive me from manjaro fully holy shit

[@userx9166]

next time: yay -S --overwrite="*" would work, you don't need to go one by one removing them

[@richardmonroe4208]

The Calamares installer has never let me down - have no need to use Gparted on a multi-boot machine.

[@bobbybologna3029]

It's funny how just a list of categories for software to install makes a world of difference. I'm a bit new to building any linux system from scratch so my knowledge of what software i need and what they do/differ from each other is limited. I can install a linux system from command line but once i'm sitting there with a blinking cursor i sorta forget what I need next lol

[@hakaitech]

Youre the reason i moved to Linux and havent looked back since

[@DistroTube]

Hope it's working out for you..

[@himanshushukla787]

15:00 or you can just adjust font size of both panel and dmenu to 11&11 or 10&10 to match it

[@Rundik]

Another bloated arch fork. Like manjaro wasn't enough

[@taidee]

I think they have done what they should DT. I think they are correct in leaving it as it is (they’ve already themed it), this is so that a person patches it the way they want, like you want it patched the way you (DT) wants. Their other WMs are also such that you will still fine tune it the way you want. The only difference here is that DWM is very different to other WMs, it needs so much more care to become what a person wants.

[@zedrobot5864]

Please make more tutorials on dwm and suckless utility

[@warhawk_yt]

I love ArcoLinux I use it on most of my machines but for some reason on one of my machines there was some sort of performance issue that’s wasn’t there on my other machines so for that one just used vanilla arch.

[@mizhimo]

When I feel like everything is ok in my life, I try to add some patches to my DWM to not forget how it feels the frustration of nothing going ok.

[@MrRenanwill]

I have never suffered problems with patching. Try to delete the config.h file after make clean command.

[@craigw4644]

I'm a vanilla Arch user. Outside of the install, are there differences with their repos? Is this a rolling release like Arch? Guess I could put it in a VM and learn for myself. Looks like a nice installer.

[@DistroTube]

100% compatible with Arch. It's rolling along with Arch.

[@craigw4644]

@@bigpod Thanks for the info. I went to their page and did some research.

[@craigw4644]

@@DistroTube Thanks DT, good video. I'm going to play with it in a VM. Only WM I've used is Awesome, might be time to explore Xmonad and DWM.

[@sillyness3456]

I might be weird, but the only file manager I use on my GNU/Linux machines, be it Debian or Arch, is nnn. It just seems so functional and uncluttered.

[@driden1987]

Finally a video about Arco, I look at their site and it's so god damn awful I went back to manjaro

[@DannyMexen9]

Erik Dubois' YT channel is friendlier.

[@driden1987]

@@DannyMexen9 started to take a look at it. Thanks ! I just cant find the logic that ties all together in that site

[@DannyMexen9]

@@driden1987 The site has a lot going on to be honest. Not sure but I think basically ArcoB is for you to Build. ArcoD to Download.

[@WafflesOinc]

@@driden1987 same! I really appreciate the idea, I do my research on Erik’s channel and go to the site from there.

[@davoudarsalani1888]

You could also reinstall your own build of Arch on top! :)

[@CapnLexCrunch]

I'm very glad to see dwm as a default option for more distros, but I still personally prefer Archlabs to Arcolinux for that.

[@AtomToast]

I find it so weird that you always complain about there not being a way to shift positions. I know nobody besides you that even uses the rotate stack patch. Also for at least me personally having the zoom functionality (which is by default mod+enter) and the option to increment and decrement (mod+i, mod+d) is by far enough control I need over where my windows go. I really don't care which window on stack is on the top and which is on the bottom. They take up the same space. And even if I would it wouldn't be that hard to just hit the zoom key combo twice to send the current window to the top of the stack. dwm is all about minimalism and adding only the features you want. The things you consider essential patches aren't necessarily essential patches for others. Just because you don't like how they manage a thing by default doesn't mean that everyone dislikes it. For me dwm is definitely a 100% usable wm out of the box. I just patch it to polish it out a bit. Like for example the pertag patch is fairly important for me. I know others that don't bother with it though. And that's totally fine, you just get what you want and leave all the other stuff out

[@lcf893]

DWM has a builtin function to bring slave window to the top of the stack its called zoom

[@celestialadministration]

The pick and choose options have been catching on. I know open suse does this too. For sum more options, others not so much.

[@drishalballaney6590]

does acro linux have an offline installer?

[@arcolinux5876]

yes - no internet and it will install what is on the iso

[@kylestubblefield3404]

I run 58/42 for my master/stack split

[@drenee7849]

hey dt how about a video on puppy linux

[@motif5775]

Is it possible to move dwm build from opt into another dir, like .config?

[@angiras07]

Nice

[@wojtekburzynski654]

First releases are always rough here and there

[@DistroTube]

The "special" nature of suckless software makes this especially true. :D

[@anantgupta7916]

Strong & Complicated password of dt: dt

[@spaceguybob]

Hey can you take a look at the plasma version of arco Linux?

[@bobgrimes8618]

I tried the Arcolinux Xmonad edition and it was very bloated. I switched to Mint and used your tutorials to get an excellent version of Xmonad.

[@rexhent2206]

use ArcoLinuxD then, it only installs the arch version of XMonad

[@kychemclass5850]

Aaaah. 325 MB idle = Thumbs up !

[@bharathishavakkar4526]

Hey hey! How much ram does it takes??

[@edward_t450]

I've always wanted to use an arch based distro but i'm afraid of pacman breaking the system sometimes. :(

[@mbvalency]

I like the Arch linux way, but the frequency of updates annoys me a little bit.

[@sohn7767]

@@mbvalency updating weekly is fine for the most part

[@mbvalency]

@@sohn7767 I'm running Manjaro with i3 in my living room. About 750 MB of updates per week. Would not mind if it was half or a third of it. If you neglect the updates it can cause some problems.

[@unclewithmask9113]

Hello DT, hope you get to see this, i recetly installed arcolinuxb, with all the wm, then added leftwm just to compare the window managers, plus exploring, but on my next reboot, the screen went black, it couldnt show at all in the screen, im using hp omen i7....is it the hp or the os giving me the black screen if i may ask

[@unclewithmask9113]

And how do i go about it to make it working again

[@psycan95]

8:02 too funny

[@besnikrrustemi]

The only thing i wish they would’ve added is the file system selection choice. If they had the option for BTRFS and other file system choices, perfect one distro fits all would’ve been the nickname of Arco Linux

[@dmytro_daemonkor717]

Hello Derek. I like your build of dwm so much. But could you explain how to fix delay when dwmblocks starts. I’m using your dwmblocks build as well. Thank you in advance.

[@hadesagd8345]

Looks like DT missed that Arcolinux is using sxhkd to manage the key bindings, that’s why none of the standard ones worked. I think that’s what drove him to replace DWM with his own version.

[@Roberto-oz6et]

Arco will be my next distro test. It looks awesome.

[@richardlesperance8259]

DT i have this Nordrand thing at the beginning of the boot cycle i came from manjaro but is still on my boot with Arco kde and it says this is some funky smelling stuff you might not want to use it? Any ideas on what it really is and how I can get it off my boot sequence!?

[@edb.793]

I already run Arch as my main distro, I am NOT wiping it for Arco, even the the Arco Tweak tool would be so nice to have...

[@motif5775]

Awesome video!! What would be the command to install your version dwm on dwm fresh install that I have installed on linux mint?

[@andi242]

quite a long time ago you mentioned you would not test swaywm with wayland, since you got an nvidia card. ...how about now? ;)

[@zikiviv1373]

please there is quoit random but doesn't wort , at all this is my favor in Linux how me how can i make it work the quoit

[@celestialadministration]

Arco linux gives newbies some thing learn.

[@mariuspeter3645]

They called it Arco cos this distro comes with the mf gas!! ⛽🔥🔥

[@qrockz007]

Can you please make a video on how to get FN Keys working with Linux?

[@enermaxstephens1051]

So why exactly would you use this instead of manjaro?

[@NoEntityHere]

How does he do the super keys like super enter and super x?

[@danieleccleston7928]

Damn I thought it was acrolinux

[@source8093]

Hei that looks really nice!

[@mecrumbly429___4]

1:26 Laughs in Archfi.

[@666110666]

ArcoLinux ist einfach Super and fast ,Tyvm.

[@dustyfog1977]

... Classy ... !!! ... Thanks DT ...*

[@Z1g0l]

I think I'm gonna try it, since Manjaro keeps having trubles with grub on my ol' to-run-linux-distros laptop. Also always wanted to try DWM but couldn't make it run on Manjaro. Thx DT, you're the best!

[@Z1g0l]

@@peterjansen4826 Will see about that but I think you might be right. Anyway I won't be sure if I won't check it.

[@BryanEaton]

This is dope

[@BlackMetalGods]

Which Window Manager editions of ArcoLinuxB would you recommend to start with? Xmonad, Awesome, BSPWM, Qtile or I3?

[@DistroTube]

If you install the ArcoLinux Xtended edition, you can select multiple window managers to install and try out. ;) That said, if you want to try them one at a time, try awesome first. It's very comfy.

[@ablanchi]

every time i hear someone say 'i wish dwm would just come with...' its like... dude, Awesomewm exists. it has everything from every window manager.

[@idk-bv3iw]

20:50 seems like a terrible way to resolve the conflict. You should just remove the package that owns those files.

[@poms3559]

huh!!!!!!! nice idea :/ why the heck --overwrite option exists for in pacman ??? :D

[@OpenSourceSlayer]

Your audio is so spot on DT. I may try out some Arco on my secondary box! Looks nice for a second machine!

[@DistroTube]

Go for it!

[@visrut7]

Where I find that wallpaper ?

[@eherrmann01]

It's the default Arcolinux wallpaper. It may be available on their website.

[@visrut7]

@@eherrmann01 thank you