dwm

misc notes

"live" relaunch

to relaunch dwm without losing open windows:

while : ; do
    dwm && break || continue
done

If dwm is manually closed, it will exit 0 thus breaking and exiting your X session as normal.

If you kill dwm forcefully, like with pkill, it will exit 1 causing the loop to continue and relaunching dwm. This won't close your X session so all your opened apps will remain.

note: may want to add a sleep in there in case your dwm breaks for some reason (ex: segfaults)

picom

to prevent picom, (or compton), drawing shadows on your status bar add these lines to picom.conf:

shadow-exclude = [
    "class_g *= 'dwm'",
    "name *= 'dwm'"
]

conky

make sure you have this line else dwm will try to manage it as a window

own_window_type = ‘override’