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This dwm 6.2 side project has a different take on dwm patching. It uses preprocessor directives to decide whether or not to include a patch during build time. Essentially this means that this build, for better or worse, contains both the patched _and_ the original code. The aim being that you can select which patches to include and the build will contain that code and nothing more.
For example to include the `alpha` patch then you would only need to flip this setting from 0 to 1 in [patches.h](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch/blob/master/patches.h):
```c
#define ALPHA_PATCH 1
```
So if you have ever been curious about trying out dwm, but have been discouraged by manual patching, then this may be a good starting point to see what a "fully fledged" dwm can look like. Want to try out the `pertag` patch? Just flip a config and recompile. Once you have found out what works for you and what don't then you should be in a better position to choose patches should you want to start patching from scratch.
Refer to [https://dwm.suckless.org/](https://dwm.suckless.org/) for details on the dwm window manager, how to install it and how it works.
---
### Changelog:
2019-09-15 - Added xrdb, viewontag, urgentborder and winview patches
2019-09-14 - Added setborderpx, selfrestart and push (no master variant), sticky and warp patches
2019-09-13 - Added titlecolor and push patches
2019-09-12 - Added activetagindicatorbar, alwaysfullscreen and autoresize patches
2019-09-11 - Added monitor rules, combo and ewmhtags patches
2019-09-10 - Minor tweaks to awesomebar patch (incl. alpha and systray compatibility). Added floatbordercolor patch.
2019-09-09 - Added deck, fibonacci (dwindle and spiral), gridmode, gapplessgrid, horizgrid, nrowgrid, centeredmaster and flextile layouts. Added alternativetags and awesomebar patches.
2019-09-08 - Added cfacts and vanitygaps patches, added bstack and bstackhoriz layouts
2019-09-07 - Added cyclelayouts, resizecorners, rotatestack, savefloats, statuspadding, switchtag, center and windowrolerule patches
2019-09-06 - Added attachabove, attachaside, attachbelow, attachbottom, autostart, fancybar, focusonnetactive and losefullscreen patches
2019-09-05 - Alpha, systray, togglefullscreen, tagallmon, tagmonfixfs, tagswapmon, pertag and zoomswap patches added
### Patches included:
- [activetagindicatorbar](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/activetagindicatorbar/)
- this patch changes the rectangle indicating if a tag is used by a client into a bar above the tag name
- [alpha](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/alpha/)
- adds transparency for the status bar
- [alternativetags](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/alternativetags/)
- adds alternative tags which can be toggled on the fly for the sole purpose of providing visual aid
- [alwaysfullscreen](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/alwaysfullscreen/)
- prevents the focus to drift from the active fullscreen client when using focusstack\(\)
- [attachabove](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/attachabove/)
- new windows are placed above selected client
- [attachaside](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/attachaside/)
- new windows are placed on top of the stack
- [attachbelow](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/attachbelow/)
- new windows are placed below selected client
- [attachbottom](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/attachbottom/)
- new windows are placed at the bottom of the stack
- [autoresize](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/autoresize/)
- by default, windows that are not visible when requesting a resize/move will not get resized/moved, with this patch, however, they will
- [autostart](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/autostart/)
- makes dwm run `~/.dwm/autostart_blocking.sh` and `~/.dwm/autostart.sh &` on startup
- [awesomebar](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/awesomebar/)
- enhanced taskbar that allows focus / hiding / unhiding of windows by clicking on the status bar
- [center](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/center/)
- adds an iscentered rule to automatically center clients on the current monitor
- [cfacts](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/cfacts/)
- the cfacts patch provides the ability to assign different weights to clients in their respective stack in tiled layout
- [combo](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/combo/)
- allows you to select multiple tags by pressing all the right keys as a combo, e.g. hold MOD and press and hold 1 and 3 together to view those two tags
- [cyclelayouts](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/cyclelayouts/)
- lets you cycle through all your layouts
- [ewmhtags](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/ewmhtags/)
- adds EWMH support for \_NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS, \_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP, \_NET_DESKTOP_NAMES and \_NET_DESKTOP_VIEWPORT, which allows for compatibility with other bars and programs that request workspace information, e.g. polybar's xworkspaces module
- [fancybar](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/fancybar/)
- shows the titles of all visible windows in the status bar
- [floatbordercolor](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/float_border_color/)
- this patch allows a different border color to be chosen for floating windows
- [focusonnetactive](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/focusonnetactive/)
- by default, dwm responds to \_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW client messages by setting the urgency bit on the named window
- this patch activates the window instead
- [losefullscreen](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-vanitygaps/blob/master/patches/dwm-losefullscreen-6.2.diff)
- by default in dwm it is possible to make an application fullscreen, then use the focusstack keybindings to focus on other windows beneath the current window
- it is also possible to spawn new windows (e.g. a terminal) that end up getting focus while the previous window remains in fullscreen
- this patch ensures that in such scenarios the previous window loses fullscreen
- monitorrules
- adds rules per monitor, e.g. have default layouts per monitor
- the use case for this is if the second monitor is vertical (i.e. rotated) then you may want to use a different default layout for this monitor than what is used for the main monitor (for example normal vertical split for main monitor and horizontal split for the second)
- [pertag](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/pertag/)
- adds nmaster, mfact, layouts and more per tag rather than per monitor
- [push](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/push/)
- this patch provides a way to move clients up and down inside the client list
- [resizecorners](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/resizecorners/)
- by default, windows only resize from the bottom right corner
- with this patch the mouse is warped to the nearest corner and you resize from there
- [rotatestack](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/rotatestack/)
- let's you rotate through the stack using keyboard shortcuts
- [savefloats](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/save_floats/)
- saves size and position of every floating window before it is forced into tiled mode
- if the window is made floating again then the old dimensions will be restored
- [selfrestart](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/selfrestart/)
- restart dwm without the unnecessary dependency of an external script
- [setborderpx](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/statuspadding/)
- this patch allows border pixels to be changed during runtime
- [statuspadding](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/statuspadding/)
- adds configuration options for horizontal and vertical padding in the status bar
- [sticky](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/sticky/)
- adds toggleable keyboard shortcut to make a client 'sticky', i.e. visible on all tags
- [switchtag](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-vanitygaps/blob/master/patches/dwm-switchtag-6.2.diff)
- when an application opens on a specific tab this patch adds the option to also switch to that tag when the application starts
- [systray](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/systray/)
- adds system tray in the status bar
- [tagallmon](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-vanitygaps/blob/master/patches/dwm-tagallmon-6.2.diff)
- move all visible windows to an adjacent monitor
- [tagmonfixfs](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-vanitygaps/blob/master/patches/dwm-tagmonfixfs-6.2.diff)
- allows moving a fullscreen window to another monitor while remaining in fullscreen
- [tagswapmon](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-vanitygaps/blob/master/patches/dwm-tagswapmon-6.2.diff)
- swap all visible windows on one monitor with those of an adjacent monitor
- [titlecolor](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/titlecolor/)
- adds a new color scheme used by the (selected) window title in the bar
- [togglefullscreen](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-vanitygaps/blob/master/patches/dwm-togglefullscreen-6.2.diff)
- allows you to toggle fullscreen on and off using a single shortcut key
- [urgentborder](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/urgentborder/)
- this patch makes "urgent" windows have different colors
- [vanitygaps](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-vanitygaps/blob/master/patches/dwm-vanitygaps-6.2.diff)
- adds configurable gaps between windows differentiating between outer, inner, horizontal and vertical gaps
- [viewontag](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/viewontag/)
- follow a window to the tag it is being moved to
- [warp](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/warp/)
- warps the mouse cursor to the center of the currently focused window or screen when the mouse cursor is (a) on a different screen or (b) on top of a different window
- [windowrolerule](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-vanitygaps/blob/master/patches/dwm-windowrolerule-6.2.diff)
- sometimes a single application opens different windows depending on the task at hand and this is often reflected in the WM_WINDOW_ROLE(STRING) x property
- this patch adds the role field to the rule configuration so that one can differentiate between, say, Firefox "browser" vs "Preferences" vs "Manager" or Google-chrome "browser" vs "pop-up".
- [winview](http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/winview/)
- allows switching the view to that of a given client from the all-window view (Mod-0) using a keyboard shortcut
- [xrdb](http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/xrdb/f)
- allows dwm to read colors from xrdb (.Xresources) during runtime
- [zoomswap](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/zoomswap/)
- allows a master and a stack window to swap places rather than every window on the screen changing position
### Layouts included:
- [bstack](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/bottomstack/)
- bottomstack layout
- [bstackhoriz](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/bottomstack/)
- bottomstack horizontal layout
- [centeredmaster](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/centeredmaster/)
- centeredmaster layout
- [centeredfloatingmaster](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/centeredmaster/)
- centeredfloatingmaster layout
- [deck](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/deck/)
- deck layout
- [fibonacci](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/fibonacci/)
- fibonacci (dwindle and spiral) layouts
- [flextile](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/flextile/)
- expanded flextile patch supporting:
- horizontal and vertical split
- centered horizontal and vertical split
- pertag, cfacts, rmaster, vanitygaps patches
- tile, deck, monocle, centeredmaster, bstack, bstackhoriz, gapplessgrid and more
- [gapplessgrid](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/gaplessgrid/)
- gappless grid layout
- [gridmode](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/gridmode/)
- gridmode (grid) layout
- [horizgrid](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/horizgrid/)
- horizontal grid layout
- [nrowgrid](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/nrowgrid/)
- nrowgrid layout, number of rows in grid controlled by nmaster
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