multimon

Description

These patches provide a number of enhancements for working in a multi-monitor environment.

monitor marker:

Adds a small token to the bar that displays the dwm monitor number

unified view:

Provides two wrapper functions that work across all monitors simultaneously
Can change/toggle the view for all monitors with a single click/key, creating a unified workspace

reset view:

Function and settings for a "default view"
Supports workflows with a number of always-open core windows, on specific tags, where a single click/key switches to them
Enables per-monitor mfact, nmaster and list of highlighted tags
Switches to the configured view on startup

status all:

Show/update the status on all bars
Based on statusallmons, but uses a configurable boolean

push up/down:

Move windows up and down the clients list
Ported version of push, so it applies seamlessly with these patches

swap focus:

Switch focus between current/last window with a single shortcut
Based on swapfocus, but updated to work on the newest version

focus on active:

Switch focus to activated windows
Based on focusonnetactive, but uses the original dwm code instead of resetting the highlighted tags.

Usage

Other than "focus on active", the default settings and behavior of dwm are not modified by these patches. The config.h configuration needs to be modified to take advantage of them.

They are intended to be applied in order, one after the other. They can also be used independently, except for "reset view" which depends on "monitor marker". Using patch -F10 -p1 will automatically address any rejects.

Example configuration settings with comments are included in config.def.h for each patch.

Download

Version 6.4 (2023-02-19) -- (commit: 2023-02-17 348f6559ab0d4793db196ffa56ba96ab95a594a6)

dwm-multimon-1-monitor_marker-6.4.patch (6902b)
dwm-multimon-2-unified_view-6.4.patch (6582b)
dwm-multimon-3-reset_view-6.4.patch (7758b)
dwm-multimon-4-status_all-6.4.patch (3946b)
dwm-multimon-5-pushupdown-6.4.patch (5895b)
dwm-multimon-6-swap_focus-6.4.patch (6495b)
dwm-multimon-7-focusonactive-6.4.patch (1851b)

Version 6.1 (2014-03-26) -- (commit: 2013-08-27 cdec9782a1789bd5c3a84772fd59abb9da288597)

dwm-multimon-1-monitor_marker-6.1.patch (6228b)
dwm-multimon-2-unified_view-6.1.patch (6558b)
dwm-multimon-3-reset_view-6.1.patch (6816b)
dwm-multimon-4-status_all-6.1.patch (6165b)

Forked dwm repository is maintained at: github.com/garybgenett/.dwm

Author

Gary B. Genett - me@garybgenett.net

Original Submission: lists.suckless.org/dev/1403/20488.html