This was cool but there were a few issues such as me not being able to
find the infamous "dock patch" despite grepping for dock on
https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/, which resulted in the keyboard hiding
tiled windows and being below floating windows.
There was also an issue where starting corekeyboard from dwm would
result in styling not being applied compared to starting it from the
terminal.
A third issue was that from a quick attempt I couldn't get callaudiod to
start inside dwm, which was required for gnome-calls.
Overall it looks like I will be using Phosh until further notice on the
PinePhone, as I've already gotten it to work well enough for my use case.
This worked and was *significantly* faster than Phosh but resulted in a
lot of phone things broken like phone calls and the camera. Overall
quite cool to run dwm on the PinePhone but not really practical when
trying to use the PinePhone as a phone.
Note that it's possible to use an autostart patch like
https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/cool_autostart/ so startx isn't
needed although this results in dwm starting before things like
the status bar get set.
Makes the desktop more useful. Note that nemo-desktop was chosen over
alternatives like pcmanfm due to its superior icon positioning and
support for feh, among other benefits.
I added specializations over a year ago when I was still new to NixOS
and trying out some of the many different features unique to it. These
days I don't need much more than a terminal and a web browser, and I
haven't used GNOME or Plasma in over a year at this point.
Nowadays everything I need from a computer I can accomplish with the
terminal. Nixpkgs trained me to dig deep into source code to figure out
how to do things, and using a PinePhone significantly improved my
awareness of how Linux interacts with hardware and how to configure it.
One of the biggest motivators for dropping these environments is that I
can't keep up with the changes that are made to GNOME and Plasma.
Hyprland has served my needs well and feels more stable since there
isn't a user interface that's constantly changing.
Now it's possible to float and unfloat windows and those windows will
preserve their floating window size.
Note that this patch was merged with the alwayscenter patch so the diff
applies cleanly.
Automatically moves windows to the leftmost tag when moving them.
Useful to help keep the third workspace unoccupied when two other
workspaces have windows on them.
Changes from the original dwm:
- Removed border from windows
- Changed colors (will replace with stylix ones later)
- Added media keys for brightness / volume
- Changed tag names and amount
- Added transparency to bar
- Made librewolf float to preserve window size
- Removed unused keybinds like layout switching
- Removed unused tag keys
- Set mod key to super instead of alt
- Changed dmenu to rofi and st to kitty
