dwl

This is my patched version of dwl. This belongs to my larbs installation script and depends heavily on its scripts and programs. It is supposed to work in the environment after the larbs base installation. This repository is set up according to the suckless entry of my wiki.

Patches

The list below shows the currently applied patches to the master branch.

• attachtop.patch (new clients are attached at the top of the stack)
• bottomstack.patch (adds bottomstack and bottomstackhorizontal layouts)
• deck.patch (adds deck layout with one master and stacked clients)
• en-keycodes.patch (always uses the english keycodes)
• fakefullscreenclient.patch (enables per-client fake fullscreen)
• foreign-toplevel-management.patch (allows external programs to query/control windows)
• hide-behind-monocle.patch (hides unfocused windows in monocle layout)
• hide-behind-fullscreen.patch (hides other windows behind fullscreen clients)
• inputdevicerules-v0.7.patch (adds per-input-device configuration rules)
• ipc.patch (adds IPC for external control and scripting)
• pertag.patch (stores layout, mfact, nmaster, bar state per tag)
• swallow.patch (replaces terminal with spawned application)
• togglekblayoutandoptions.patch (toggles keyboard layouts and XKB options at runtime)
• unclutter.patch (hides cursor after inactivity)
• warpcursor.patch (moves cursor to the focused window)
• xwayland-handle-minimize.patch (improves minimize/restore handling for XWayland)

Hotkeys

There are various shortcuts and hotkeys used in this version. Included in my build are the following.

ModKey	Shift	Key	Function
Super		h	(Tiling/Deck) Focus window higher in stack than current
Super		j	(Tiling/Deck) Focus window lower in stack than current
Super		k	(Tiling/Deck) Focus window higher in stack than current
Super		l	(Tiling/Deck) Focus window lower in stack than current
Super		1/2/.../9/0	Show tag 1/2/.../9/0
Super		.	Show monitor lower in stack
Super		,	Show monitor higher in stack
Super	Shift	Escape	Quit dwl with call for confirmation
Super	Shift	c	Enable deck(/card) layout
Super	Shift	d	Toggle floating/tiled for selected window
Super	Shift	f	Toggle fullscreen
Super	Shift	h	(Tiling/Deck) Make current window the master window
Super	Shift	j	(Tiling/Deck) Make current window the master window
Super	Shift	k	(Tiling/Deck) Make current window the master window
Super	Shift	l	(Keyboard) Cycle through the keymap layouts
Super	Shift	m	Enable monocle layout
Super	Shift	o	(Tiling/Deck) Increase master window size
Super	Shift	q	Close current window
Super	Shift	t	Enable tiling layout
Super	Shift	u	Enable bottomstack layout
Super	Shift	v	Enable bottomstackhorizontal layout
Super	Shift	z	(Tiling/Deck) Decrease master window size
Super	Shift	1/2/.../9/0	Add current window to tag 1/2/.../9/0
Super	Shift	.	Add to monitor lower in stack
Super	Shift	,	Add to monitor higher in stack
Alt		Tab	(Tiling/Deck) Focus window lower in stack than current

Additionally the right hand side control key is set to be used as the compose key.

Installation

The following programs are required to be installed for full functionality.

• dmenu

The most basic way is to clone the repository and then invoke make.

• git clone https://github.com/tiyn/dwl
• make clean install