Flawless install. You're incredibly didactic, man. For real. The skill to convey stuff in a way that the majority of people understand is terribly underestimated. Please, take that to wherever you go. Family barbecues, conference rooms, wherever. That's a very good talent, congratulations on putting effort into perfecting it. Cheers and success, brother.
I installed dwm on linux mint a few weeks ago. Matt, I followed the video you did when you installed dwm on pop os. It helped me install it flawlessly. Thank you! I think linux mint is awesome distro, especially for newbs. Great video!!
The procedure on how to deal with DWM on Linux Mint is actually more simple than this: Step 1: Don't. Users who choose to use Linux Mint won't really benefit from diving into DWM. If they just want to get their feet wet in a tiling window manager, they'd be better off trying a friendlier one.
Honestly great tutorial, thank you. I tried using Arch for a while and it was.. an experience I used it for about 2 weeks before I went back to linux mint. In retrospect I think hyprland was the root issue (had consistent crashing of memory intensive applications, it could have been a number of things, but I just didn't want to invest more time into fixing it) Mint usually just works out of the box most of the time, and getting back a tiling window manager will make it much nicer to work Regardless thanks again for the tutorial, it's a great refresher.
Would love to see a dwm ricing vid based on the Linux mint theme. Let’s get our green on. Also great vid. Don’t know much about Debian based package management and when it came to installing dwm, I was super confused myself
I don‘t really like dwm, but this is not due to its functionality. It is more due to suckless‘ attitude. Someone being proud of „being elitist“ and stating „no novices asking stupid questions“ is just not my cup of tea. Nevertheless, some other users like it, so thanks for your video! I‘ll stay with bspwm and qtile
You need to install the autostart patch for dwm. Then create a ,dwn folder in your home directory. And then an autostart.sh file. Make it executable, add a shebang and then put in the things you want to start up followed by an &. That should do it.
Yes, it's just a git pull in order to update. But DWM updates very infrequently. Also, you'll want to backup your configs, as a pull may overwrite them. You can get past this by putting all of your changes into a different branch (git checkout branchname) and then git pull --rebase origin master, which will update the master branch, and then apply your commits. It will also alert you to any conflicts. Again, I've been using DWM for over a year now and there hasn't been an update I've needed to 'install'.
Maybe there are updates, you just don't receive update notifications. This is exactly why I try to avoid installing to many things via git. It becomes an out-of-date mess soon. Maybe it's just me... 😀
Flawless install.
You're incredibly didactic, man. For real. The skill to convey stuff in a way that the majority of people understand is terribly underestimated. Please, take that to wherever you go. Family barbecues, conference rooms, wherever. That's a very good talent, congratulations on putting effort into perfecting it.
Cheers and success, brother.
I installed dwm on linux mint a few weeks ago. Matt, I followed the video you did when you installed dwm on pop os. It helped me install it flawlessly. Thank you! I think linux mint is awesome distro, especially for newbs. Great video!!
You made it all seem really simple! More tutorial vids like this, man! :D
I'm going to try one a week.
The procedure on how to deal with DWM on Linux Mint is actually more simple than this:
Step 1: Don't.
Users who choose to use Linux Mint won't really benefit from diving into DWM. If they just want to get their feet wet in a tiling window manager, they'd be better off trying a friendlier one.
@@homfes People can do whatever they want to do. They obviously wouldn't be searching for how to install dwm if they didn't want to install dwm.
Honestly great tutorial, thank you.
I tried using Arch for a while and it was.. an experience I used it for about 2 weeks before I went back to linux mint.
In retrospect I think hyprland was the root issue (had consistent crashing of memory intensive applications, it could have been a number of things, but I just didn't want to invest more time into fixing it)
Mint usually just works out of the box most of the time, and getting back a tiling window manager will make it much nicer to work
Regardless thanks again for the tutorial, it's a great refresher.
I like the idea of LinuxTubers living in a DE or Distro they don't like or is completely new to them.
Thanks Matt! I was just going to try installing xmonad on Ubuntu but I'd much rather do dwm 😉 Perfect timing
You did a great job on the video man! 👌
Would love to see a dwm ricing vid based on the Linux mint theme. Let’s get our green on.
Also great vid. Don’t know much about Debian based package management and when it came to installing dwm, I was super confused myself
Thank you.
i find this video useful ;D
Nice. It would be good to see Video#2 where you add to this (linux mint) desktop patches, slstatus etc to make this a 'home dwm''
great channel, thanks dude
Thanx man
I don‘t really like dwm, but this is not due to its functionality. It is more due to suckless‘ attitude. Someone being proud of „being elitist“ and stating „no novices asking stupid questions“ is just not my cup of tea. Nevertheless, some other users like it, so thanks for your video! I‘ll stay with bspwm and qtile
how do you go about making a command run on log in with xsession? i've been trying without success to make feh run when i log in.
You need to install the autostart patch for dwm. Then create a ,dwn folder in your home directory. And then an autostart.sh file. Make it executable, add a shebang and then put in the things you want to start up followed by an &. That should do it.
@@TheLinuxCast thank you very much!
How do you keep it all up to date? Is that a pull request, make and make install for each separately? Or is there a better way?
Yes, it's just a git pull in order to update. But DWM updates very infrequently. Also, you'll want to backup your configs, as a pull may overwrite them. You can get past this by putting all of your changes into a different branch (git checkout branchname) and then git pull --rebase origin master, which will update the master branch, and then apply your commits. It will also alert you to any conflicts.
Again, I've been using DWM for over a year now and there hasn't been an update I've needed to 'install'.
Maybe there are updates, you just don't receive update notifications. This is exactly why I try to avoid installing to many things via git. It becomes an out-of-date mess soon. Maybe it's just me... 😀
@@bjorn7696 The last update was in 2020.
How to remove dwm ?
A hate that transcends beyond floating window manager... ;)
Why you don't like Linux Mint?
You must love Mint. lol