Customized desktop environment with suckless softwares, deployed on Gentoo.

version: dwm-6.3

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System dependency

`--  media-libs/fontconfig-2.13.1-r2  (media-libs/fontconfig) amd64
`--  x11-libs/libX11-1.7.3  (x11-libs/libX11) amd64
`--  x11-libs/libXft-2.3.4  (x11-libs/libXft) amd64
`--  x11-libs/libXinerama-1.1.4-r1  (x11-libs/libXinerama) amd64
`--  x11-base/xorg-proto-2021.5  (x11-base/xorg-proto) amd64

To Use emoji

By default, using emoji will break the system due to some error in libXft, need to patch and rebuild.

see this link https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8617575.html

1. get this patch https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/-/merge_requests/1.patch
2. Put patch in /etc/portage/patches/x11-libs/libXft (whatever version is used, if the folder not exists, create it) and rebuild libXft package
3. install font
   • noto-emoji (install with emerge)
   • twemoji: https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font

other apps

These apps are configured in this build

• pulsemixer
• firefox (Super-Shift-w)
• emacs (Super-e)
• xbacklight
• emacs-everywhere (Super-Shift-e)
• st (Super-enter)
• fcitx (for Chinese input) (Ctrl-Space)

• dwm-6.1-single_tagset.diff
• dwm-actualfullscreen-20211013-cb3f58a.diff
• dwm-alpha-20201019-61bb8b2.diff
• dwm-sticky-6.1.diff
• dwm-swallow-20201211-61bb8b2.diff
• dwm-xresources-20210827-138b405.diff
• dwm-vanitygaps-6.2.diff (tile, bstack, bstackhoriz, centeredmaster, centeredfloatingmaster, deck, fibonacci (dwindle, spiral), grid, nrowgrid)
• dwm-statuscmd-status2d-20210405-60bb3df.diff
• dwm-dwmc-6.2.diff

Customized statusbar with dwmblocks

Showed Status

• weather
• network
• memory usage
• input method (English/Chinese)
• battery status
• date

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