• From: Benbrook, TX
  • Registered: 2008-11-26
  • Posts: 69

Topic: dwm

Don't know how many have tried this other CB windows manager, but it is really neat once you learn the ropes.....suggest going to http://www.suckless.org/dwm/tutorial.html and print out that page...helped me a bunch....anyway nice tiling window manager when you want a break from Openbox or just want to try something different. I pretty much use dmenu to launch the apps I want to use....Alt-p and type in part of app name and voila!


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ggordon

  • From: NYC
  • Registered: 2008-12-13
  • Posts: 65

Re: dwm

Here's another, IMHO better tutorial

http://www.xsnake.net/howto/dwm/dwm-eng.php

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  • From: Benbrook, TX
  • Registered: 2008-11-26
  • Posts: 69

Re: dwm

Good one scottro.....will look at it more closely later.....thanks.


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ggordon

  • From: NYC
  • Registered: 2008-12-13
  • Posts: 65

Re: dwm

What I admire most about the fellow is that he went on IRC and took the abuse to get the information.  Their (the dwm people) whole thing about remaining elitest and keeping clueless newbies away, does make one wonder if the program was written by 12 year olds.  smile 

Actually, I think it was Einstein who said something to the effect of, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

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  • From: Aachen germany
  • Registered: 2010-09-17
  • Posts: 11

Re: dwm

PLEASE
to al CB developers

dwm (i mean tilling WMs) is/are nice
but all distributions are the same : focus to an nontillingsorry ihave drunen WM
and if i install an tilling wm it is just the tilling wm i have installed

sorry for my english

what i want is using dwm on CB !
jes i can!

no i cant
dwm is al the same on all distibution i want a CB-DWM
nice scripted as CB-openbox

why????: i had never spended time in openbox , but since CB i knew it , use it and lern how to custonize
so please make a CB.dwm fordrunken dummys like me  (dont know example conky in every bacround,,) eksaplee

i mean DWM-session  in CB? nice but ise the same as DEBIAN whith dwm
ach fuck you know what i mean

sonst soll wer besser kann ma denen hier allen safen, dass ich n crunchbang will wo ich die terminal aps in mnem tilling wm laufen hab will, weil ich will dass wenn wer meine desktop siht, siht, dass ich ahnung von computern hzab. bzw denkt...
big_smile wo isn her das beer smyly?

my english is scheisse ey
so wenn Ju faint a misstaik korrräkt mi
  • From: Aachen germany
  • Registered: 2010-09-17
  • Posts: 11

Re: dwm

nix für ungut

I like CB
and i try to convert every guy i talk to, to use CB
and mostly it works!


KDE is now using tilling to!
but i hate kde CB koult be an alternative!

more beere


i bekome a DADY today so dont agry about my english ond treads aaaaand
lives goooooood
i like all of you 

YYEEEEAAAAAAAH
beer

my english is scheisse ey
so wenn Ju faint a misstaik korrräkt mi
  • Registered: 2010-09-12
  • Posts: 254

Re: dwm

klausi wrote:

focus to an nontillingsorry ihave drunen WM

Cute! wink

klausi wrote:

i bekome a DADY today

Congrats, man!!!

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Last edited by boromeus (2010-10-06 01:22:10)

  • Registered: 2009-12-11
  • Posts: 181

Re: dwm

No idea what you're (Crunch) banging on about but congratulations. Hope all is well.

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  • From: Bigfoot Country
  • Registered: 2010-06-12
  • Posts: 1,356

Re: dwm

Hey dude,  DWM is a really bad@$$ WM. if you wanna get into theming out dwm and changing keybindings and stuff, couple of notes.  You have to modify the source code and build the changes into DWM.  Also, CLI conky is a great way to get more functionality into it.

Since I take it you are using either Statler or Janice(9.04) making changes and building source code is really easy with Debian based distros.  Cuz you can download the source from your Debian repository, then rebuild a package from it with your modifications.  What you do is make sure all the lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list have a corresponding src line.  Example.

deb http://site.example.com/debian distribution component1 component2 component3
deb-src http://site.example.com/debian distribution component1 component2 component3

of course apt-get update, then you need to get the build programs and dwm source/dependencies

required build programs

apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev

dwm source

mkdir ~/builds
cd ~/builds
apt-get source dwm
sudo apt-get build-dep dwm

extract source and modify dwm

dpkg-source -x dwm_version-revision.dsc
cd dwm-version

NOW EDIT config.h for you FVWM MODDSS!!!
you can also edit the debian/version file for
a custom version number that debian won't
try to update or replace your custom build

gedit config.h
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
sudo dpkg -i ../dwm-version-arch.deb

Hope that comes in handy, for making changes to DWM.  If you are an expert packager, that may seem like a bunch of stuff you already know, but I don't know so I just posted it anyway.  For bigger apps and lager scale packaging that's not the best way to do it, I normally use pbuilder and a much larger chain of scripts, but since DWM is so small and the dependencies are minimal, i figured it wouldn't hurt to post this repackaging guide.  Cheers matey.

Last edited by rstrcogburn (2010-10-06 13:36:14)

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