My build of dwm

dwm (dynamic window manager) is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/rpamor/dwm.git
cd dwm
sudo make install

Running dwm

Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:

exec dwm

Using dwm

MODKEY is set to Super key.

MODKEY + Shift + Enter - Opens the terminal

MODKEY + u - Unswallow window

Window Swallowing

Allows "window swallowing".

Useful tool to avoid cluttering the screen with unusable or less important things.

Syntax

dwmswallow SWALLOWER [-c CLASS] [-i INSTANCE] [-t TITLE]

Register window SWALLOWER to swallow the next future window whose attributes match the CLASS name, INSTANCE name and window TITLE filters using basic string-matching. An omitted filter will match anything.

You can usually use the $WINDOWID environment variable for SWALLOWER. Check your terminals if it exports this environment variable.

Run the following command below, if it returns a value, you're all set.

echo $WINDOWID

Usage

• Basic

  • Separate commands

      dwmswallow $WINDOWID -c Zathura
      zathura some_pdf_file
    

  • One-liner

      dwmswallow $WINDOWID; zathura some_pdf_file
    

• Shell integration using alias

  Create an alias like the following:

    alias s='dwmswallow $WINDOWID;' 
  

  Then, while in the terminal, you activate swallow for the next program you want to run by typing, <alias> <prog_name>. The example below uses zathura for opening some pdf file:

    s zathura some_pdf_file.
  

• Shell integration using hotkey

  • For zsh users, add the following to ~/.zshrc:

      bindkey '^X^m' accept-line-swallow
      zle -N accept-line-swallow acceptandswallow
      acceptandswallow() {
          dwmswallow $WINDOWID
          zle accept-line
      }
    

    Now that the binding is in place, whenever you want to activate swallow for any program you want to run in the terminal, press Ctrl-x + Enter when running a program instead of just Enter.

• Swallowing existing windows

  • using the mouse

    Press MODKEY + Shift + Left_Mouse_Button on a window and drag it to another window you want it to swallow.

  • using the command line

      dwmswallow SWALLOWER SWALLOWEE
    

    Using the command line require that you know the $WINDOWID of both the SWALLOWER and the SWALLOWEE.