jordanator / chadwm

Making dwm as beautiful as possible!

chadwm (Initial look)

(empty workspaces have their color greyed out)

• NOTE: This is vanilla dwm bar (status2d patch for setting colors) not dwmblocks or polybar.

- The small widget over the top right is an eww widget and thats old! Ive improved the eww widget

(catppuccin theme)

(gruvbox material dark)

Tag preview (while hovering tag icon)

simplescreenrecorder-2021-08-03_21.28.49.mp4

Requirements

• dash (shell)
• imlib2
• xsetroot package ( status2d uses this to add colors on dwmbar)
• JetbrainsMono Nerd Font (or any nerd font) and Material design icon font

Setup

git clone https://github.com/siduck/chadwm --depth 1
mv chadwm ~/.config
cd ~/.config/chadwm/chadwm
sudo make install

• copy the stuff from fonts folder to your ~/.local/share/fonts
• autostart script in the scripts dir is just an example one so it must be adjusted for your liking!

Run chadwm

Run the autostart file from .xinitrc

(.xinitrc file)

#!/bin/sh

exec ~/.config/chadwm/scripts/./autostart

OR

Create a desktop entry

touch /usr/share/xsessions/chadwm.desktop  

[Desktop Entry]
Name=chadwm
Comment=dwm made beautiful 
Exec= ~/.config/chadwm/scripts/./autostart 
Type=Application 

• wallpaper

Recompile

• You need to recompile dwm after every change you make in its src code

cd ~/.config/chadwm/chadwm
rm config.h
sudo make install

Change themes

• Bar : in bar.sh and config.def.h
• eww : in eww.scss
• rofi : in config.rasi

Credits

• HUGE THANKS to eProTaLT83. I wanted certain features in dwm like tabbar in monocle , tagpreview etc and he implemented my ideas and created patches for me! I cant even count the number of times he has helped me :v
• @fitrh helped with colorful tag patch
• 6gk, eww's pure posix fetch functions taken from here
• mafetch, modified version of this was used as fetch in the screenshots

Patches

• barpadding
• bottomstack
• cfacts
• dragmfact
• dragcfact (took from bakkeby's build)
• fibonacii
• gaplessgrid
• horizgrid
• movestack
• vanity gaps
• colorful tags
• statuspadding
• status2d
• underline tags
• notitle