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<h2>DWM Window manager [1]</h2>
<h3>2025-04-21</h3>
<h4>Suckless window manager</h4>
<p><a href="https://www.suckless.org" target="_blank">Suckless web site</a></p>
<p>It struck me that using DWM with Monocle layout would be just what I've been looking for on my X220</p>
<p>I cloned the st, dmenu, and dwm from suckless.org and followed the instructions to compile them.</p>
<p>Right now I have Xfce4 installed, so to try out DWM I've added an entry to select it in lightdm</p>
<p><b>sudo micro /usr/share/xsessions/dwm.desktop</b></p>
<code>[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=dwm
Comment=Dynamic window manager
Exec=dwm
Icon=dwm
Type=XSession
</code>
<p>In dwm's config.h I set the monocle layout as default and recompiled dwm.</p>
<p>At first glance this looks much better than the i3 window manager, small, neat and fast.</p>
<p>More to come...</p>
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