[10a] | DWM: Patching & Start Loop

In this video we create a "while loop" to start DWM and applying and removing some patches. Enjoy it!
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[@user-ir1jp3yv2r]

You are blessing to me ! Keep doing what you are doing big man 🙂 Much love and respect ❤️

[@eflinux]

Thanks! Glad you're here!

[@eilerson1093]

Thank you guy. This is the bast guide about dwm!

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@chief5145]

brother you are a great guy, i will reinstall arch on my thinkpad and for sure use your tutorial to configure dwm. thanks a lot!

[@eflinux]

Glad you liked it! :)

[@babattaja]

Thank you for all these videos! They are really helping me out!

[@rbr9292]

DWM taking shape! Thanks again for the knowledge Ermanno 👏

[@eflinux]

You bet!

[@biljoe209]

best channel ever. Thank you ermanno

[@uuu12343]

You are what the suckless community need but does not deserve Thanks, this is my first attempt into suckless tools and as usual, I can understand it better

[@eflinux]

Glad I could help!

[@anthonynardone3722]

thanks for this managed to get dwm up and running on arch, really enjoying dwm.

[@eflinux]

Great to hear that!

[@shahabjami3161]

absolute lifesaver.

[@z0x]

With your help, stderr and, common sense, I fixed my first bug on Arch. I installed a patch twice and the stderr said "redefinition error" so I knew there was duplicate variables being redefined. I deleted them and everything worked, thanks for the help.

[@joeshelby3352]

God bless u bro!

[@LucasSilva-jd2bf]

Great video as always! What is your favorite window manager?

[@eflinux]

Difficult question! If I have time to play around with it, I'd say DWM as of now. If I don't have much time and I need a wm I'd say i3.

[@matthias2447]

Thank you for your high quality content! Which TWM would you recommend for a beginner (someone who wants to start with TWMs)?

[@eflinux]

Hi Matthias! Thank you! I'd probably suggest i3 :)

[@matthias2447]

@@eflinux Thanks. I would appreciate a video series where you talk through vim. Not about how vim works, but rather about its eco system. Which plugins would you recommend, how to install and how to use them. Combined with an overview over the vim workflow, this could be a great guide for vim beginners (like me).

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into it!

[@zc0rp10]

How would you go about un-muting and adjusting volume with the packages you have installed so far on this setup? I ended up adding pamixer package and running paxmixer --umute, pamixer --set-volume 100 to enable my sound. Could I have resolved it in another way with the packages we already had installed so far?

[@eflinux]

Probably with the alsa-utils package, however I’ll to integrate this in the next video. For a script for your config file you can look here: gist.github.com/palopezv/efd34059af6126ad970940bcc6a90f2e

[@zc0rp10]

@@eflinux Thank you Ermanno! I'm really enjoying building up my system from "scratch" together with you in this series. Learning a lot about all the hard work as well as all the little touches that's gone into putting together the complete distros that we install.

[@eflinux]

Thanks! I'd say also a big thanks to suckless for providing people with such great software :)

[@JasonColdham]

This series it the best! Will you show us how to make st transparent and add and customize a status bar? Thanks for all your hard work!!

[@eflinux]

I’m going to customize the status bar a little, but probably not st. However, pitching works the same way as DWM.

[@JasonColdham]

EF - Tech Made Simple ok thank you. I’ll try patching st from the examples you showed us for dwm. So far I much prefer dwm over i3. Wondering is it possible to auto launch applications like the terminal and browser on to different tags like we did on workspaces in i3?

[@eflinux]

It should be, but I haven’t looked into that yet.

[@JasonColdham]

EF - Tech Made Simple Will be looking forward to that video if you make it too. Thank you so much for always answering comments and helping out your subscribers!

[@eflinux]

It’s my pleasure!

[@forgiveness_denied]

Good sir !!! WOW I can't even describe how cool are those ! but how do you increase font in ST?

[@eflinux]

Hey thanks! You can increase the fonts with ctrl+shift+pageup.

[@danielleporello7714]

Is it possible you missed an & at the while loop? Im asking because when I put the same while you wrote, the dwm doesn't start properly... What I have used is: while true; do dwm >/dev/null 2>&1 & done this is working but I don't know if maybe is wrong for something else. Thanks for the video!

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the feedback! According to the Arch wiki: while true; do # Log stderror to a file dwm 2> ~/.dwm.log # No error logging #dwm >/dev/null 2>&1 done wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dwm

[@danielleporello7714]

When I used it with the & at the end, there was a proces that runed the .xinitrc that was using a lot of the processor power, so what I said on the coment was wrong. I've tried what you just said and it is working great!! Thank you!! :)

[@eflinux]

Great! :)

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[@Benwick921]

Why when do u open multiple windows the gaps are not aligned properly? (specially at the bottom)

[@kartikeykushwaha3622]

That only happens with terminals. That's because terminals' size is determined by their columns and rows. But you can change that easily: set resizehints = 0 in config.h. It's also mentioned on the suckless website: dwm.suckless.org/faq/

[@eamoc]

Nice vids. Why do you cp config.def.h to config.h, when building dwm creates a new one anyway?

[@0x7f2c]

config.def.h from what i know is the default config (def) patches usually patch it instead of config.h "config.h is a source code file which is included by dwm.c, the main dwm source code module. It serves as the configuration file for all of dwm's features, e.g., application placement, tags, and colours. *A vanilla download of dwm will contain a file called config.def.h, a template you can use to create your own config.h file.* To start customising dwm, simply copy config.def.h into config.h before you run make."

[@bobkoss280]

How do you kill dwm if every time you kill it it restarts?

[@eflinux]

In that case, you can leave the loop out of your xinitrc.

[@thenextpoetician6328]

The Vim theme is really difficult to read. More contrast would help. :)

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@thenextpoetician6328]

​@@eflinux You're welcome. To my thinking, every element should have a slider control for colour and opacity. I have not the first clue how much that's asking. Like a keystroke to flash the cursor position. :)

[@eflinux]

I’ll have to look into it.

[@joeldowell5059]

So I installed all this through a VM following your tutorials and had absolutely no issue doing so. Now, on actual hardware, I'm not able to apply any patches to the system. It doesn't even give me an error, it just acts like I didn't type any command in. Any tips? I really don't want to have to manually apply patches, as I did grab quite a few, but if that's the only solution, I'll take it.

[@eflinux]

Difficult to say. It also depends on the base install you did. I tried this on a VM and on my Tuxedo laptop with the same installation and it worked for me.

[@joeldowell5059]

I simply did a base install of Arch with the linux-zen kernel. Other than that kernel difference, I followed your tutorial exactly.

[@eflinux]

I see. Can you describe me the problem a little more? Maybe a screenshot via igmur?

[@joeldowell5059]

Here's what I've got currently. imgur.com/a/eQVK1A5

[@eflinux]

Do you have the development package and headers installed?