[solved] dwm + conky + mpd

I have the following .conkyrc:
background no
out_to_console yes
update_interval 2
total_run_times 0
use_spacer none
TEXT
$if_mpd_playing ^i(/home/hithere/.dwm/dzen/xbm8x8/note.xbm) ${mpd_smart}$endif • ^i(/home/hithere/.dwm/dzen/xbm8x8/cpu.xbm) ${cpu}% • ^i(/home/hithere/.dwm/dzen/xbm8x8/mem.xbm) ${memperc}% • ^i(/home/hithere/.dwm/dzen/xbm8x8/fs_01.xbm) /sda1: ${fs_used_perc /}% | /sda2: ${fs_used_perc /home}% • ^i(/home/hithere/.dwm/dzen/xbm8x8/net_down_03.xbm) ${downspeedf eth0} ^i(/home/hithere/.dwm/dzen/xbm8x8/net_up_03.xbm) ${upspeedf eth0} • ^fg(\#696969)${time %H:%M}^fg()
When I play a music file via ncmpc++, the conky display gets shifted to the right, thus hiding my download/upload speeds, clock, etc. Is there a way to anchor my conky display information and have mpd fill the music file information to the left?
Last edited by ntness (2010-05-30 06:13:38)

Ok, played with -x and -w a bit. Increasing -w truncates the clock/up and down speed/drive information (apparently shifting things off the screen to the right). Decreasing -w truncates almost everything and shifts the code towards the center of the screen. The same holds for increasing and decreasing the value of -x; increasing shifts everything to the right (off screen) and decreasing shifts everything towards the center (albeit, with no truncation). Now I'm positive this would all work out merrily if I had my cpu information in the top left and so could put the mpd code at the end of my file

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# Draw outlines that amplifies text?
draw_outline no
# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0
# border margins
border_margin 0
# border width
border_width 0
# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color DarkGrey
color3 white
color1 black
color2 888888 #dark grey
color3 CECECE #white-ish
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment tm
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment middle_right
#alignment bottom_left
# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 25
gap_y 60
# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes
# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no
short_units 1
###End of configuration###
# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
TEXT
${font bulletballs aoe:size=17}b$font ${user_names}@$nodename
${font stylebats:size=17}2$font ${uptime}
${font stylebats:size=17}y$font ${battery_percent}%
${font stylebats:size=17}q$font ${ibm_temps 0}C
${font stylebats:size=17}p$font ${cpu cpu0}%
${font stylebats:size=17}h$font $memperc%
${font pizzadude bullets:size=17}r$font ${fs_used /}/ ${fs_size}
${font pizzadude bullets:size=17}z$font ${fs_used /home}/ ${fs_size /home}
${font pizzadude bullets:size=17}N$font ${upspeed eth0}kb/s
${font pizzadude bullets:size=17}T$font ${downspeed eth0}kb/s
${font WenQuanYi Zenhei:size=10}${mpd_artist}$font
Last edited by zephyrus17 (2008-10-14 11:01:05)

[solved]DWM apply systray patch

[solved]I am trying to appply the systray6.1 patch to dwm. The "patch" goes fine but when I make I get the below errors:
dwm build options:
CFLAGS = -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Os -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -DVERSION="6.1" -DXINERAMA
LDFLAGS = -s -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXinerama -lfontconfig -lXft
CC = cc
CC drw.c
CC dwm.c
dwm.c: In function ‘clientmessage’:
dwm.c:589:26: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘long unsigned int’ from type ‘XftColor’
swa.background_pixel = scheme[SchemeNorm].bg->rgb;
^
dwm.c: In function ‘updatesystray’:
dwm.c:2221:18: error: incompatible type for argument 9 of ‘XCreateSimpleWindow’
systray->win = XCreateSimpleWindow(dpy, root, x, m->by, w, bh, 0, 0, scheme[SchemeSel].bg->rgb);
^
In file included from dwm.c:36:0:
/usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1621:15: note: expected ‘long unsigned int’ but argument is of type ‘XftColor’
extern Window XCreateSimpleWindow(
^
dwm.c:2224:24: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘long unsigned int’ from type ‘XftColor’
wa.background_pixel = scheme[SchemeNorm].bg->rgb;
^
dwm.c:2244:24: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘long unsigned int’ from type ‘XftColor’
wa.background_pixel = scheme[SchemeNorm].bg->rgb;
^
dwm.c:2263:2: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of ‘XSetForeground’
XSetForeground(dpy, drw->gc, scheme[SchemeNorm].bg->rgb);
^
In file included from dwm.c:36:0:
/usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:3227:12: note: expected ‘long unsigned int’ but argument is of type ‘XftColor’
extern int XSetForeground(
^
Makefile:18: recipe for target 'dwm.o' failed
make: *** [dwm.o] Error 1
I haven't applied any other patches. Any idea what I am doing wrong? I can go into dwm.c and see the lines the error is refering to but I am not sure what the problem is.
Thanks
Last edited by derrickcope (2015-05-01 02:30:45)

I just got the latest one off of the repo at git.suckless.org/dwm. the page says 6.0 but my config.mk says version 6.1. I did try the 6.0 version but the patch had errors. I am a little confused. The other patches come back with errors too. I am using an unpatched version at the moment so I would think most patches should work.
What should I do?

[SOLVED] DWM+pertag+bstack error

hi
i'm trying to compile dwm with pertag diff patch and bstack.c
i get an error while compiling it:
CC dwm.c
In file included from config.h:42,
from dwm.c:254:
bstack.c: En la función 'bstack':
bstack.c:7: error: puntero deferenciado a tipo de dato incompletoº
bstack.c:11:error:puntero..
make: *** [dwm.o] Error 1
==> ERROR: Falló la compilación.ª
Abortando...
º means: dereference pointer to incomplete data type
ª means: Compilation failed.
it sucks 'cos i want to read pdf on top of my 10" screen and write documents at bottom, without the problem of change to another desktop and have to move to another layout, i.e., floating for gimp
another thing: for write this post i must to write the code manually, 'cos a don't know how to copy from urxvt and paste it to firefox.. yep, that's a newbie question
Edit: solved here
Last edited by kismet010 (2010-02-08 05:51:09)

Looks like this workaround isn't enough to get it to compile on the latest hg clone.
dwm build options:
CFLAGS = -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Os -I. -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/X11 -DVERSION="5.8" -DXINERAMA
LDFLAGS = -s -L/usr/lib -lc -L/usr/lib/X11 -lX11 -L/usr/lib/X11 -lXinerama
CC = cc
CC dwm.c
dwm.c: In function 'gaplessgrid':
dwm.c:262: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
dwm.c:276: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
dwm.c:276: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
dwm.c:279: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
dwm.c:282: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
dwm.c:282: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
dwm.c:283: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
dwm.c:284: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make: *** [dwm.o] Error 1
Line 262 for me is:
for(n = 0, c = nexttiled(m->clients); c; c = nexttiled(c->next))
I've tried many things and maybe i'm missing something very simple here.

[SOLVED] dwm: cannot open mixer

I've been setting up dwm through the last hours and I had an issue with sound playback. Firstly, I can play any sound from the console or any other wm. The problem appears when I start dwm by using xinit but loading it through gdm seems to solve the problem but still I'm not satisfied with that solution. I think that gdm do something in order to grant access to the sound card but on the other hand I still have another problem with multiple running applications that playback sound, only the first opened application can.
After starting dwm with xinit I get "amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory" and by running alsamixer I get "cannot open mixer: No such file or directory".
Thanks in advance
Last edited by russo (2011-06-20 04:01:15)

Well, I checked those posts.
/dev/mixer exists
I tried to load the snd-pcm-oss but nothing changed.
However I noticed that I can run alsamixer as root. I'm not sure but maybe having to run gdm as root while running xinit as user made the difference but still it doesn't make sense since I can run openbox with xinit and everything works fine. I'll keep trying
EDIT: Finally, I tried to load openbox through xinit and had the same problem. Next I tried to reboot removing gdm from the daemons and start dwm directly with the xinitrc options. Now it seems to work fine. Maybe gdm blocked the sound card once it opened.
Last edited by russo (2011-06-20 04:00:56)

[SOLVED]dwm bars

I have some questions about dwm configuration. First of all how can I move the dwm bar to the bottom and make a new bar at the top where I can put my conky system monitor.
Like how this guy did it with his nice plain desktop:
Last edited by zowki (2009-06-19 15:55:55)

I got conky to be rendered as a window thanks to your .conkyrc tip but I still can't get dwm to make that bottom gap.
I tried "sh = DisplayHeight(dpy, screen) - BOTTOM_BAR_HEIGHT;" and defined BOTTOM_BAR_HEIGHT to 15 in config.h but it still didnt work.
Edit:
I have been doing some more hunting. Could any of these be the right variable?
static int sx, sy, sw, sh; /* X display screen geometry x, y, width, height */
static int by, bh, blw; /* bar geometry y, height and layout symbol width */
static int wx, wy, ww, wh; /* window area geometry x, y, width, height, bar excluded */
Edit 2:
I FINALLY DID IT! It was in the updategeom() function. I did this:
wh = showbar ? info[i].height - bh - BOTTOM_BAR_HEIGHT : info[i].height;
Thank you guys for all your help!
Last edited by zowki (2009-06-19 14:22:11)

[SOLVED]DWM using 100% cpu

Does anyone know why DWM is eating 100% of my cpu ALL the time?
I installed it as per instruction via the wiki, added a simple comky script and that's it. When I startx the cpu is maxed out. My laptop shut down once because of this.
.xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
## OpenBox Desktop
#exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session
## DWM Desktop
feh --bg-scale /home/n1x4/images/wallpaper.jpg
#conky | while read -r; do xsetroot -name "$REPLY"; done &
conky -x 0 -y 0 -d
while true
do
xsetroot -name "$(date +"%a %b %d %r")"
done &
wmname LG3D
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch dwm
.conkyrc
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_colour 000000
own_window_transparent no
own_window_hints undecorated below sticky skip_taskbar skip_pager
double_buffer yes
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
use_xft no
xftfont Terminus:size=8
update_interval 0.1
minimum_size 1280 10
maximum_width 1280
border_margin 4
border_width 1
draw_outline no
default_color white
alignment bottom_left
use_spacer right
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
TEXT
${alignc}$nodename ${color #0100ff}Uptime:${color white} $uptime ${color #0077ff}| CPU:${color #0077ff} ${color white}${cpu}%${freq}${color #0077ff} | FS: ${color lightgrey}${fs_used /}/${fs_size /}${color #0077ff} | /home: ${color lightgrey}${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home}${color #0077ff} | RAM: ${color white}$mem ${color #0077ff}| Network:${color white} ${wireless_essid wlan0} ${color #0077ff}| Down: ${color white}${downspeed wlan0} ${color #0077ff}| Up: ${color white}${upspeed wlan0} ${color #0077ff}| Battery: ${color white}${battery BAT1} ${battery_time BAT1} ${color #0077ff}| Volume:${color white} ${exec amixer get Master | egrep -o "[0-9]+%" | head -1 | egrep -o "[0-9]*"}%
Anything else you all would like to see please let me know.
Thanks
Last edited by n1x4 (2012-02-26 03:03:01)

I thought that was what you were talking about. I never actually used that line before.. I added it then I changed my xsetroot setting and it clashed so i just commented it out.
I just wrote a new pipe line and tested it. Same deal.
Thanks for the advice man, I actually just copied the conkyrc from a user on here, i have also tested my personal conky scripts and they all (4) have the same issue but work fine on OpenBox. I'll go through and edit and play around with this and see if anything helps.
I appreciate your time man, much abliged.
.xinitrc conky pipeline
conky | while true; do -x 0 -y 0 -d; sleep 1m; done &
Screenshot of conky(new code) with 11% cpu usage.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58127896/2012-0 … _scrot.png

[Solved] dwm status bar

I am learning about DWM...slowly...
So, I have conky piped to dzen2 as per the screenshot;
But how do I now remove the 'dwm-6.0' from the status bar?
Thanks for your patience.
Last edited by ancleessen4 (2013-04-13 11:05:17)

dzconky;
#!/bin/sh
FG='#aaaaaa'
BG='#333333'
FONT='-*-inconsolata-*-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*'
conky | dzen2 -e - -h '14' -w '1100' -ta r -x '750' -fg $FG -bg $BG -fn $FONT &
conky;
out_to_console yes
#out_to_x no
background no
update_interval 2
total_run_times 0
use_spacer none
TEXT
#Arch 64 :: $kernel :: $uptime_short :: ^fg(\#60B48A)$mpd_smart ^fg():: ${cpu cpu1}% / ${cpu cpu2}% :: cpu0 ${execi 5 sensors | grep "Core 0" | cut -d "+" -f2 | cut -c1-2}C cpu1 ${execi 5 sensors | grep "Core 1" | cut -d "+" -f2 | cut -c1-2}C :: ^fg(\#DC8CC3)$memperc% ($mem) ^fg():: ${downspeed enp0s20} ${upspeed enp0s20} :: ${time %a %b %d %H:%M}
$kernel :: Updates: ${if_match ${execi 1800 (checkupdates | wc -l)} == 0}${color2}up to date${color}${else}${color3}${execi 1800 (checkupdates | wc -l)} new packages${color}${endif} :: ^fg(\#60B48A)$mpd_smart ^fg():: ^fg(\#DC8CC3)$memperc% = $mem ^fg():: ${time %H:%M} :: ^fg(\#8CD0D3)${execi 300 /home/neil/bin/weather.sh "EUR|LU|LU001|Luxembourg"}
I have tried changing '-x' and '-w' but no change to the layout...
Just tried to recompile with '-x=850'...to try and push dzen output to the right but no change...
makepkg -efi --skipinteg
I am sure this is a simple solution that I am missing...

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