Bloating up DWM 6.4 with 12 patches

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[@habituallearner7680]

This is another outstanding tutorial! Your step-by-step method of teaching by example is for me the best way to learn. I think after having gone through three of your DWM tutorials in Debian VMs now I'll be able to customize the key bindings, etc. I never thought I could get up to speed on the suckless software so quickly, so thank you.

[@TheLinuxCast]

Great video as always, Mike!

[@leighhorton2806]

I have loved your work Mike! Bloat is overstated! Its great to see how just a few patches work. If you look at how many patches are needed to run flexipatch sometimes the word minimal is lost!

[@linuxdabbler]

Agreed. I even tried to run without any patches at all at one point. It can be done pretty easily, now I see pstching as added creature comforts instead of absolute necessity.

[@WC1376C22]

Don't sell yourself short, Mike. You are doing good work!

[@geronimo19611]

Thanks Mike ! Great stuff, I learnt a lot. Didn't know about the status2d patch, my Dwm looks much better now ! THX from Switzerland

[@linuxdabbler]

@geronimo19611. Glad you liked it. Status2d is a must have for the ricers.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Thanks, this has saved me a lot of time in working out the best patch order - albeit I will only use some of the ones that you've installed.

[@reverse_shell]

I watched and configured everything from the first video and now I found this video. You refined your setup and it's much quicker. Thank You! Edit: sbcolors isn't in the repository

[@linuxdabbler]

I recently revamped my dwm config after I upgraded to bookworm and forgot to add that feature back. Sorry. But it is pretty simple to add yourself should you be interested.

[@anveshdange]

@@linuxdabbler Hi where can I find the sbcolors folder??

[@linuxdabbler]

I forgot to add that feature back to my dwm build when I completely revamped it a while back. For sbcolors, you can look to my dwmbar-emoji script and get the syntax from there. Just cut and paste the color definitions into a file like sbcolors/gruvbox And add a line to your script like this source Path/to/your/color/scheme Or . Path/to/your/color/scheme If you would like to create multiple color scheme files, you can put the color schemes in separate files and source one in your script. gitlab.com/linuxdabbler/suckless_software/-/blob/main/dwm/scripts/dwmbar-emoji The colors in my script will give you a gruvbox color scheme...

[@abyrva1g491]

Awesome! This is what l've been looking for! Thank you!

[@bojanstrkovski21]

Amazing step by step tutorial i must say a lot off patching great one thanks ! 😳😎

[@kbc8090]

good video, got me motivated to add some new patches to my build :D

[@nagaprasad4445]

You are a Linux God!

[@linuxdabbler]

@nagaprasad4445. I wouldn't go that far. I've just screwed up enough to learn what doesn't work. Lol. Glad you like the video. It made my day.

[@Bruces-Eclectic-World]

Well, I'm Bruce and I had nothing better to do! 😛 I did watch it all because I didn't want to do any of my stuff I need to do cause don't feel to good today and this was easier. If I watch it again I will have to watch it in 1/2 speed... 😆 Thanks LD! LLAP 🖖

[@linuxdabbler]

Hi Bruce! Hope you get to feeling better buddy. And hope all is well. LLAP

[@thaeronline]

Thank you.

[@negimox]

Hello, There is a very weird problem with fake-fullscreen patch and only happens on chrome browser or based on it. Where when I maximise a video playback unlike urs where it resized to adjust to the small space given, in mine it doesn't and appears as if I had fullscreen. And only when I change or resize the chrome window does it resize to adjust to the small dimensions. Any thoughts on how this can be solved?

[@mb_mobile49]

I'm only about 10 minutes in -- it would make more sense to just symlink the backgrounds directory rather than have a second copy of the images.

[@linuxdabbler]

You're probably right. I haven't tried it that way since I have scripts like bgsel.sh and xwal to choose/shuffle the wallpapers. And it would show up on my git status output when I change the wallpaper.

[@mb_mobile49]

@@linuxdabbler Ah. There may be something to add to .gitignore so it doesn't show up as a changed file.

[@thedanmethenyshow.6004]

It makes me want to mess with dwm right now.

[@linuxdabbler]

It's a good time to do it Dan. The devs removed the work-around for color emoji and there's no need to install libxft-bgra if the version of libxft is 2.3.5 or higher.

[@miyolinux]

You had me at pcmanfm...

[@linuxdabbler]

@miyolinux. Hi Dan! Pcmanfm has been my pick for gui file managers for years at this point...but I have found myself using terminal file managers more and more... Is that normal? Or am I becoming an Arch-y Devuan user? Lol

[@miyolinux]

@@linuxdabbler All that matters is that you let me know when you start using nnn...instead of those other bloated-fan boi terminal file managers. 😅

[@iAmTheWagon]

What's new in 6.4 and why would I bother updating?

[@linuxdabbler]

There's no real need to update if your current build is working for you... My last video on dwm 6.3 is now outdated. My laptop is still running dwm 6.2 and spectrwm. Suckless devs don't really release write-ups on new features, they expect everyone to read the changelog and the commits. git.suckless.org/dwm/log.html The most notable update is the removal of the work-around for color emojis since libxft is updated to version 2.3.5

[@iAmTheWagon]

@@linuxdabbler Aaahh ok. Thank you so much! Whenever there's an update to something I feel pressured to use. Thanks for dispelling my pressure.

[@leonbishop7404]

@@linuxdabbler but if I didnt patch my 6.3 dwm yet it's worth updating right? it's relatively stable since it's small enough, right(even if it's been released not so long ago)?

[@linuxdabbler]

@leonbishop7404. It has been very stable for me in my limited testing.

[@deleted-test]

no offense, but I feel like you're CGI.

[@eygs493]

lol