From dad224a8406970664bbd560ce850a9bbb791c275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: shockrahwow Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 23:56:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] working on new post still needs revision --- prebuild/post/dwm.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 prebuild/post/dwm.md diff --git a/prebuild/post/dwm.md b/prebuild/post/dwm.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a97ece --- /dev/null +++ b/prebuild/post/dwm.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# A month in DWM - Moving forward with my setup + +For about a year and half I've been using [i3wm](https://i3wm.org/) as my daily driver under Debian and Gentoo(for my short time with it) and I'lve loved it thus far. +As with many things however, it started to get old and I wanted something new without having to distro-hop. + +[DWM](https://dwm.suckless.org/) interested me as its memory usage footprint is tiny compared to i3wm and follows the [suckless philosophy](https://suckless.org/philosophy/) which I still found interesting. + +## Is it /comfy/? + +Absolutely. But I'll let this little clip speak for itself: + +
+ +Once you get past a couple of hurdles with it things becomes really nice and to be honest have spoiled me to the point of just basic tasks in other setups has become painful. +_If you're a vim user then you'll know the feeling._ + +## Hurdles + +First off configuring anything blows. Recompiling things is just dumb and means you have to: + +1. Close everything because you will have to exit dwm + X11 +2. Exit DWM + X11 +3. Make changes & recompile +4. Test changes +5. Often tweak changes and go back to step 2 + +Patching is obnoxious on the premiss that I don't want to shut literally everything down just to rice. +Which means I messing with things becomes boring leaving me to go do something else.