#dwm

lqlarry 🐧lqlarry
2025-05-01

Well, it feels like it's time. What says May Day any better than installing xfce?

I'm gonna ease my way back into some window managers, starting with some .

Rebooting now. Time to run around the May pole.

Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿frassmith@dotnull.net
2025-04-30

About one year, and several distro hops later, I decided to try my customized version of dwm again. It pretty much worked immediately with only a couple of tweaks required to get it back to where it was before.

#dwm #Linux #TilingWindowManager #FTW

Joel :arch: :casio:joel@fosstodon.org
2025-04-20

New blog post, as the title says, I use #Arch btw. Here are the general steps I took to do it, some troubleshooting and first impressions.

So far so good!

This is day 51 of #100DaysToOffload

joelchrono.xyz/blog/i-use-arch

#ArchLinux #DistroHop #Linux #FOSS #dwm

OrbitalMartian :vivaldi_red:OrbitalMartian@vivaldi.net
2025-04-19

DWM is cool. What patches do people recommend?

#DWM #AskFedi

TronNerd82TronNerd82
2025-04-18

I don't know why, and it's only when I use dwm (which is my main window manager), but every so often, if I run Tuba and Discord at the same time, they'll both freeze at the very same time and I have to run killall to close them. What makes this even more weird is that Discord will unfreeze itself if I happen to take too long to kill it.

This issue doesn't ever happen on XFCE (I have a full Slackware install with all the DEs and WMs, plus dwm which is my preference).

Strange.

2025-04-15

Decided to set up an Arch Linux machine running DWM as a development environment to have a go at creating my own Discord bot 🤖 — it's my first time doing this, but here’s a screenshot of the finished setup!
💻🐧

Wallpaper on an Arch Linux laptop using DWM
2025-03-31
I've come around on Desktop environments, really enjoying #gnome again after years on #dwm. I've forgotten the value of sane defaults.
Mr. Vmrv404
2025-03-30

What can you do nowadays with a single core and 512mb of RAM computer?

I'm about to find out...

I'll be running 15 with or maybe , and I'll be testing a bunch of stuff to see what works and what makes the computer fans turn it into a drone.

2025-03-28

Ya estuve jugando con mi compu vieja para el #desafíoretrocómputo2025

Tiene 2 cores y 2 Gb de RAM, pero para el desafío le reduje los cores a 1 solo, y la memoria a 512 Mb, como para poner la cosa más interesante.

Tiene #Slackware 15, y estoy probando #dwm como window manager, que es extremadamente liviano (y minimalista).
Puede que lo compare con #jwm, que me encanta y es bastante más completo y no creo que sea tanto más pesado.

Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:zirias@bsd.cafe
2025-03-27

@peppe Well, #dwm is a window manager. Then there's #dwl, which is a #wayland #compositor, trying to do "functionally the same" as dwm. My point is, it has to implement a lot more stuff to do so.

My favorite window manager is #fvwm (or now #fvwm3), and as far as I know, its main developer was looking into wayland and currently doesn't have any concrete plans to work on that ... and I can perfectly understand. 😔

2025-03-22

XFCE 4.20 with dwl wayland compositor. I also applied two patches, vanity gaps and foreign toplevel management. Feel free to try : gist.github.com/lidgnulinux/d2

XFCE 4.20 + dwl wayland + vanity gaps + foreign toplevel management.
2025-03-21

because #gimp 3.0 looks hideous with the (absolutely outdated) GTK theme I'm using, I wanted to change the system theme...

the issue is, I'm in #DWM on #ArchLinux, and I use the #XFCE bar, so I have the XFCE settings app installed, but the icon theme and gtk theme can not be changed from there.

luckily, I have #Cinnamon also installed, so I can log in there, use the settings app there, and that works.

why though?! #JustLinuxThings

#Linux #FreeSoftware

2025-03-13

Pour one out for my level 60 Baramos in Dragon Warrior Monsters 2. While transferring him between games, the Everdrive failed to reboot/save properly and he was lost forever. Guess I'll rage quit for a year now.

#DragonQuest #DragonQuestMonsters #DQM #DWM

2025-03-07

Recently switched from #dwm to #fvwm3 mostly out of just wanting to tinker/change the look/feel of my desktop. Not 100% sure I'm gonna stick with it and open to other options. What cool #WindowManagers are #x11 #linux folks using these days?

Joel Carnat 📽️joel@eggflix.foolbazar.eu
2025-03-05

Confessions of a Tilerholic: The Slippery Slope to Xmonad and DWM

eggflix.foolbazar.eu/videos/wa

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵rl_dane@polymaths.social
2025-03-02

@thestrangelet

#dwm user located ;)

Nyan Maxmaxxcan
2025-02-07

Como es , pero yo sigo con mi mismo , en vez de una imagen, os pongo un video, para ser algo más original.

Just… Josh :BlobCatTrashed:jlw_the_jobber@polymaths.social
2025-02-04

Oh, and I dabbled a bit with #DWM. Thanks to @justaguylinux (Drew) making a fabulous script for a nice customized and easy install. The only thing I have done so far is changed the wallpaper. Drew sure made a pretty DWM setup.

DWM screenshot with the bar set up on the top displaying multiple virtual screens, cpu/ram data, date, time, and a widget for Clementine.  Wallpaper is of an astronaut in space with his hands around something like a jellyfish.Another DWM screenshot with multiple windows open. Right half of the screen is a terminal window with Neofetch data.  The other two windows open are quarter sized with Kpat and Clementine opened respectfully (Kpat on top and Clementine on bottom)

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