A Noobs Quest to Understanding dwm [and window managers in general]

Hello,
I've just switched to dwm. I would like to begin patching and contribute patches to it.
To do this i need to understand dwm, that is... read the source code.
I know a bit of C, will be learning more in the coming days. Looking at the dwm.c, i find it really overwhleming. I feel as though there are lots of fundamental concepts [to windowmanagers, to linux in general] that i don't know enough about, or don't know about at all that gets in the way of my understanding. I've only been with linux/arch for 4 months now.
So i'm looking for some tips!
What concepts do i need to understand in order to understand dwm.c?
Any advice on actually reading dwm.c (general advice also welcome)
Any helpfull resources that helped you?
Thank you for your time!

TheCrownedFox wrote:I too have undertaken the same quest and run into the same roadblocks you have.
Isn't it nice to know your not alone
Don't try to solve non-existing problems. Start using plain dwm (only editing config.h), familiarize yourself with it → with time you'll get to know it and therefore digging into the code will be a lot easier.
If you just read the code without understanding the program at all, you'll only see a mess. You need to "feel" the program you want to hack — to know what it's doing, so that when you see some part of its code you'll be like "this code does <bla>".
Use it, and when you are comfortable with it, then start asking such question — they'll be a lot easier to answer, and a lot more to the point.
I know what you mean! Thanks for putting it into words!
I know my question is general and vague, I just don't know
what else to do when I feel this way. Are these types of questions
welcome on the arch forums?
Last edited by fawkes5 (2013-04-19 07:30:48)

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