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Showing posts with label dwm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dwm. Show all posts

Friday, 1 December 2017

Desktop notifications for dwm

I decided to configure desktop notifications for my environment. I ended up choosing dunst

Follow these instructions and join me using dunst!

To send an example notification

notify-send 'Hello world!' 'This is an example notification.' --icon=dialog-information

Sunday, 29 April 2012

DWM and java applications

Java applications do not run on dwm, so you need to type:

wmname LG3D
unset AWT_TOOLKIT
./app
Credits should go to these pages:
Jtang
Arch Linux/DWM

Compile DWM on Ubuntu

My Good Friend told me about suckless.org. In the meanwhile, I installed the new Ubuntu version (12.04) on my ssd drive. I was almost happy, but I felt, that this is just too much for me. I don't want to follow the Unity line, I am fed up with the Windows like feeling, I am fed up with the mouse, I want to work with my computer. So let's give a try to a minimalistic approach: dwm.
First, I just did a lazy apt-get install dwm, but after a day, I thought It is a good idea to look at the source code, do some configuration, etc.

hg clone http://hg.suckless.org/dwm
cd dwm
sudo apt-get install libxinerama-dev
sudo make clean install
cat /usr/share/xsessions/dwmcustom.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=DwmCustom
Comment=Dynamic window manager
Exec=/usr/local/bin/dwm
Icon=dwm
Type=XSession
That's all you need to have your custom dwm compiled.