Inspiration from Bread on Penguins and BugsWriter
I've been messing with DWM patches but I went back to naked DWM. The only caveat is a couple of lines of code in dwm/config.h to integrate Pywal16, that allows me to have a colour theme that matches whatever wallpaper I'm using.
It's possible to patch DWM with the Xresources patch but patches are version dependant and can be a pain. I prefer simple and maintainable.
Install pywal16
yay -S python-pywal16
In dwm/config.h I removed the default colour settings:
static const char col_gray1[] = "#222222";
static const char col_gray2[] = "#444444";
static const char col_gray3[] = "#bbbbbb";
static const char col_gray4[] = "#eeeeee";
static const char col_cyan[] = "#005577";
static const char *colors[][3] = {
/* fg bg border */
[SchemeNorm] = { col_gray3, col_gray1, col_gray2 },
[SchemeSel] = { col_gray4, col_cyan, col_cyan },
};
and replaced them with this line:
/* Pywal16 */ #include "/home/philip/.cache/wal/colors-wal-dwm.h"
In my .xinitrc I have wal -Rq which recalls the last wallpaper setting.
This script chooses the wallpaper then recompiles dwm and dmenu.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Choose a wallpaper
# requires nsxiv, pywal16
# ~/.local/bin is in PATH
FOLDER=~/Pictures/wallpaper
# thumbnail display of images
CHOICE=$(nsxiv -otb $FOLDER/*)
wal -i $CHOICE
# Post process
# DWM
cd ~/.local/src/dwm
make clean ; make
rm -f ~/.local/bin/dwm
cp dwm ~/.local/bin
# DWMMENU
rm -f ~/.local/dmenu*
cd ~/.local/src/dmenu
make clean ; make
cp {dmenu,dmenu_run,dmenu_path} ~/.local/bin
ยง