Those already familiar with Mercurial may find it more convenient to maintain configurations and patches within this system. If problems were encountered, review the output for specific information.įinally, restart dwm in order to apply the changes.įrom now on, instead of updating the md5sums for every config.h revision, which are known to become frequent, one may erase the md5sums array and build dwm with the -skipinteg option:Īnd after adding a few lines to dwm's start-up script, it is possible to restart dwm without logging out or closing programs.ĭwm is maintained upstream within a Mercurial version control system at. This will eliminate a checksum mismatch between the official config.h and the new revised copy.Īssuming the configuration changes were valid, this command will compile dwm, build and reinstall the resulting package.
Once changes have been made, pipe the new md5sums into the PKGBUILD: Note: Be sure to make a backup copy of config.h before modifying it, just in case something goes wrong. If problems are encountered, review the output for specific information. This will compile dwm, build an Parabola package containing the resulting files, and install the package file all in one step. Use cd by switching to the directory containing the build scripts (the example above used /dwm). Once the required packages are installed, use ABS-Libre to update and then copy the dwm build scripts from the ABS-Libre tree to a temporary directory. You will probably also want to consider installing dmenu, a fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X:īasic programming tools present in base-devel are needed in order to compile dwm and build a package for it, and the abs package is also a requisite for fetching the necessary build scripts:ġ.2 Download build scripts with ABS-Libre Taking this in mind, the rest of the article assumes that dwm has been compiled from source as explained in the entirety of this section. Note that by omitting compiling dwm from source a great deal of customizability is lost, since dwm's entire configuration is performed by editing its source code. If only interested in installing dwm for a test drive, simply install the binary package from the repositories instead:
This will allow reconfiguring it at a later time without complications. These instructions will install dwm using makepkg along with the Arch Build System Libre, or ABS-Libre for short.
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