dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.

This guide assumes your system has the latest updates before going ahead with the installation.

Note that you may want to keep the source directories of the tools you download in a suitable location for future reference as you may need to recompile them to apply configuration changes.

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel extra/git extra/libx11 extra/libxcb extra/libxinerama extra/libxft extra/imlib2

If you find yourself missing a library then this can usually be found by searching for the file name using pacman:

$ pacman -F Xlib-xcb.h
extra/libx11 1.6.12-1 [installed: 1.7.2-1]
    usr/include/X11/Xlib-xcb.h

sudo apt install build-essential git libx11-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-res0-dev libxinerama-dev libxft-dev libimlib2-dev

It is worth checking the version of gcc on debian based systems as they may come with older implementations that can result in compilation errors.

gcc --version

You would expect at least v8.x or above here.

If you find yourself missing a library then this can usually be found by searching for the file name using apt-file, a tool that have to be installed separately:

$ sudo apt install apt-file
$ sudo apt-file update
$ apt-file search xcb/res.h
libxcb-res0-dev: /usr/include/xcb/res.h

sudo xbps-install -Su base-devel libX11-devel libXft-devel libXinerama-devel freetype-devel fontconfig-devel libxcb-devel imlib2-devel

If you find yourself missing a library then this can usually be found by searching for the file name using xlocate, a tool that have to be installed separately via the xtools package:

$ xlocate yajl/yajl_gen.h
yajl-devel-2.1.0._4      /usr/include/yajl/yajl_gen.h

Clone the repository, then compile and install.

$ git clone https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/dwm-titus.git
$ cd dwm-titus
$ make
$ sudo make install

A dwm.desktop file will be placed in /usr/share/xsessions/ so if you are using a login manager you should now be able to select dwm as the window manager when logging in.

If you do not use a login manager then you already know what you are doing. Add exec dwm at the end of your ~/.xinitrc file.

By default new terminals are opened by using the keyboard shortcut of Super+x while rofi is started using Super+r.