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What is dwm?

dwm is a window manager e.i. the look and behavior that ties all your opened windows together. It's one of the big popular ones for linux.

To install, download the patch and apply it to your dwm source folder with git apply.

Tiny Preview

This patch replaces tags' titles with a monochrome preview of the layout of said tag. I find this quite useful to remind myself what sort of application I might have opened on other tabs, or which tabs I can send windows to without cluttering things.

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Vertical Bar

I couldn't find on dwm's patch list a patch that simply allowed the bar to be vertical, so I made one. The vertical bar doesn't print the name of the currently focused window because it doesn't have enough space. For the status bar, the status text is split on spaces and each piece is stacked vertically.

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vertical bar preview