nmaster

History

This patch restores the ability to have multiple clients in the master area of the tiled layout. This feature was dropped from vanilla dwm in version 4.4. The ntile mode from below is included in dwm as of version 6.0.

Description

The figures show how tiling will work when the patch is applied.

ntile         (-|=)
+----------+------+
|          |      |
|          +------+
|----------|      |
|          +------+
|          |      |
+----------+------+

nbstack       (-|-)
+--------+--------+
|        |        |
|        |        |
|-----+--+--+-----+
|     |     |     |
|     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----+

Usage

Example

static const int nmaster = 2;  /* default number of clients in the master area */

#include "nmaster.c"

static const Layout layouts[] = {
	/* symbol     arrange function */
	{ "-|=",      ntile },
	{ "-|-",      nbstack },
...

static Key keys[] = {
	/* modifier                     key        function        argument */
	{ MODKEY,                       XK_a,      incnmaster,     {.i = +1 } },
	{ MODKEY,                       XK_z,      incnmaster,     {.i = -1 } },
	{ MODKEY,                       XK_x,      setnmaster,     {.i = 2 } },
	{ MODKEY,                       XK_t,      setlayout,      {.v = &layouts[0] } },
	{ MODKEY,                       XK_b,      setlayout,      {.v = &layouts[1] } },
...

Download