Install, Patch, and Customize DWM 6.3 on Debian Testing

My dwm gitlab repo has not been updated to dwm 6.3 just yet. I will get around to it soon.
GitHub (kinda dormant)
github.com/linuxdabbler
GitLab (fairly active)
gitlab.com/linuxdabbler
suckless website
suckless.org
KZbin
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Twitter, MeWe, Mastodon.social
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Software I use:
Librewolf -- Web Browser
Firefox -- Web Browser
OBS Studio -- Recording Software
Kdenlive -- Video Editor
Audacity -- Audio Editor
Vim/Neovim -- Text Editor

[@TheChrissutcliffe]

Nice, well explained video of your dwm setup. Keep em coming

[@KingZero69]

my guy the dabbler! thought you were dead my dude... 😂 glad to get some new content 😏

[@linuxdabbler]

@King Zero. Rumors of my demise were greatly exaggerated. Lol.

[@alfajrdream]

best DWM video super thanks

[@tecbs]

What a good video, thanks for sharing and greetings from Spain

[@Bitwise1024]

Some of the best Linux content on the tube.

[@nyvyme]

copy pasta of dt?

[@AlexDBall]

Nice to see you again, man! It's been a long time!

[@linuxdabbler]

Thanks @Alex D. Ball. It's good to be back uploading more often.

[@moris7361]

Cool stuff!

[@leonbishop7404]

was helpful to say the least, thanks!

[@leviticus8930]

Greetings from Bug Tussle, Alabama

[@linuxdabbler]

Hi @Leviticus. Haven't been out to Bug Tussle in a long time... I don't usually give my exact location on the internet, but I call it Podunk, Alabama... where they have to pump sunshine out to us... usually gets here on Wednesdays.

[@WC1376C22]

You know man..I just checked again and I have had alerts enabled for your channel since the start. I am not sure why I don't get squat when you roll up. Anyway great to see you still at it. I hope the family is well. Guess what after that strange vacation away from Deb, I am back. I tried out Man-XFCE, also F36-XFCE (weird Deb/Arch vibe to it) and decided to come home. Good thing I have tons of .txt files and your videos :) to re teach myself. BTW, did you give up on BTRFS on root in Deb11?

[@linuxdabbler]

@WC1376C. Welcome back to the deb side. Lol. I made a video on it almost a year ago. But I didn't really get far with the full on restore with a bash script... But I was able to successfully and consistently change root subvolumes in /etc/fstab with a dmenu script. It's in my dotfiles under rootscripts/brsnapshot.

[@WC1376C22]

@@linuxdabbler ​well brother, i have been at it since 5am central, and Deb just doesn't want to play...same AMD GPU problem from over a year ago. I have even bumped my kernel up to 5.18. Every other distro works...just not Deb.

[@Robertass2000]

gruvebox dark has some issues with libreoffice as the main/home screen window background and foreground colors are black.

[@Little-bird-told-me]

Great video ! Which WM would you suggest is best out of the box with least config. I just want to get working with it asap

[@linuxdabbler]

As you probably know, I am a spectrwm fan, and it is pretty good out of the box, but it takes a fair amount of configuring to make it fantastic... Most of the linuxy guys on KZbin upload their dotfiles to GitHub or gitlab, if you want a good starting point with any window manager... But if you want a window manager that is ready to go out of the box with no customizing, just install it and get to work... You can't go wrong with awesome.

[@lqlarry]

Nice. You edumated me. Question . . . Why do you use Dmenu from apt via suckless tools instead of wget from suckless org?

[@linuxdabbler]

I usually do, but I just didn't think about it for some reason. I even keep a patched build of dmenu on my gitlab page.

[@TheLinuxCast]

Great vid as always!

[@lqlarry]

Another question (I hope I'm allowed more questions, I know I'm not worthy). Do you remember what patches you have on ST?

[@linuxdabbler]

@LqLarry. I have alpha, scrollback, delkey, and font2... I think thats all...

[@ironmanlifts]

I moved from Xmonad to DWM thinking I needed a lot of features. After a week in dwm I realized that I didn't need all the things that I spent hours configuring in xmonad. I only have one patch, 'no title'. How do I update my dwm? The only thing I can think of is apply my 1 patch to the HEAD lol. Seriously, how do people update with all them patchs? Some may conflict with dwm git repo.

[@linuxdabbler]

I think most people treat dwm like a static release and just rebuild it after each update. 6.2 is a couple years old at this point.

[@ironmanlifts]

@@linuxdabbler That’s true. I’m going to wait a while for them to make more commits before I apply my 1 patch. I’ve been watching your videos, keep up the great work.

[@mafsi]

Sorry... I didn't understand anything. Is not an installation from scratch.