My Setup Has Changed

Thought about Hello, My Old Friend as a title, but decided this was better. A word about my current setup.

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[Bruces-Eclectic-World]

Very entertaining video today Matt... 🤣
Remember, I'm launching with you...
When you said DWN, I said no problem, then you said 28 patches, I said Oh Crap!

LLAP 🖖

[phonewithoutquestion]

Suckless/DWM is at least one of those projects that won't blindside you with rampant overhauls... Like Python-anything, sorry guys but that thing is a finicky bitch after you've lived with it for a while. Glad to see you have fun with patches, I usually lucked out with eleven or twelve before starting over.

[guycohen]

3:33 pun intended? "Threw that out the window "😂😂

[rogueyun]

I've just come from Awesome WM to dwm Suckless (With your help. Thank you!). I have this minimal philosophy that tends to push me away from more bloated software to more simplistic software and then I just try to brute force the features I want back into existence. I've been using a lot of your videos to make up for my lack of knowledge in C. Thank you for being a pioneer in this field and being willing to share your experience and what you know!

[mylinuxforwork]

Good video. Thank you. I’ll keep on using Qtile on my systems. I like python and the possibilities to extend the main config file with python libraries. Made many videos where you can see my Linux setup based on Qtile. But maybe is DWM my next favorite?!

[johanb.]

BTW congratulations on the 30.000 subs😎

[santonopoulou]

I can't give up qtile hahaha...at least for now - because I'm still learning Python; but DWM is what I want to get back to once I finish my push to get python under my belt. Only switched to qtile when I started learning Python. DWM is glorious <3 Enjoy!

Great video as always :) You've caught on a bit here in Greece with my Linux Ladies users group I run btw :)

[wyfyj]

I do like dynamic tilers too. Prefer them actually.

[Skelterbane]

I'm looking for a floating wm, that can place specific programs in specific spots
say, discord in the top left of my third monitor.
Like I can have rules for my most used programs and then have a general way all other programs show up.
Anyone got any recommendations?

[profetik]

But if you are having fun then more power to you

[MENTOKz]

Yeah i feel you man but great job on all that patching wow. Herbs is like bspwm but u can save the layouts u make then load them whenever you want also no patching or dependency hell 🤣

[iAmTheWagon]

yeah. DWM does everything I want and more. I can’t get away from it.

[vehementham]

Hey, very convenient time to start making DWM content. Been looking into DWM myself. After all it is the ultimate Linux chad WM, and the base for almost all X11 WMs.

[donaldmickunas]

LMAO… I get nerding out on C when you haven’t dealt with patching for a while. Given how often you install and reinstall distros, I don’t see this lasting very long. I’m far more minimalist than you. So Dwm patching isn’t that bad for me. Besides, my backup has a single directory where I have all my suckless stuff. I keep a backup of that directory along with all of the configs for each OS/distro. My install script(s) then restores the directory and issues “sudo make clean install” and I’m done. I think that you may be a bit masochistic going through those processes every time you do an install when a script or two plus some refinements on your backup strategy could save a lot of time and headaches. Ahh well, to each his own. I do enjoy your videos. Good luck with your current DWM project. I hope it works out for you.

[abhra-linux]

To use pywal just copy xrdb patch of dwm
Just use xrdb function
And set a keybinding for the function

[ginzilb]

Could you do a video about how to apply as many patches at some point I do not get how to fix all of those errors

[thingsiplay]

I don't think DWM is meant to be used without patching. The entire idea is to give the bones and you have to fill it out with meat. Weird analogy, ... I never used DWM and probably never will, maybe trying it out for the lolz. Just a little bit sad you left Qtile, but I knew the day would come. It just came a bit earlier and unexpected. Well, looking forward to the content anyway, because its fun to watch and listen to you and your experimentation with other stuff. One can only learn from you. 🙂

[johnpearson]

Notable absence of the systray patch. Do you use a standalone app for that?

[rharmonson]

@matt aka @TheLinuxCast, for kitty and scratchpads, set the default windows size using initial_window_width 120c and initial_window_height 40c in your kitty.conf file. More than one way to skin a cat so there are other options but that what I do.

[Winnetou]

A couple of mentions from me:
HTML and CSS definitely are languages. HTML has it in its name - HyperText Markup Language. But they are NOT programming languages and I think this is what you were thinking of.

It is very very weird that in this day and age, there isn't a program (or maybe it is, but I haven't seen one) that can deal with multiple patches. It really shouldn't be hard to make one. Git kind of does this already.

The thing is that if you specify all the patches from the start, the program can (the same as a human, but much faster) check them all and see the lines affected. So, this would nullify the first problem, that after 3 patches, the 4th patch might not work because line 55 is now line 210 after the other 3 patches. It could also directly output the conflicting lines and only make you (kind of like solving conflicts in git) make you manually "solve" those ones. If I'd had better time management I might do a tool like this myself.