DWM is a simple wondow manager. Since I only need terminal and browser in most cases. Dwm would be a better choice for me than Gnome.
The first step is installing drivers and Xorg. Before that, make sure multilib in /etc/pacman.conf is uncommneted.
sudo pacman -S lib32-mesa xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-apps xorg-xinit
Since I want the dwm to support Chinese, I installed dwm-pango from yaourt. Otherwise, the Chinese character might display incorrectly on the status bar. Some fonts are also needed to display Chinese character correctly. I like the default setting by dwm so I didn’t change config.h. Remember to recompile if you change config.h during your set up.
yaourt dwm-pango dmenu adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-tw-fonts wqy-microhei wqy-zenhei wqy-bitmapfont ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming opendesktop-fonts otf-texgyre
Then install some apps such as xterm and fcitx (Chinese Input Method)
yaourt firefox fcitx-im fcitx-sunpinyin fcitx-configtool xterm feh fluxgui wmname
Now write config files.
First, we write .xinitrc as below:
xrdb ~/.Xresources
export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export XMODIFIERS='@im=fcitx'
export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
exec fcitx > /dev/null &
while true
do
if acpi -a | grep off-line > /dev/null; then
xsetroot -name "Bat. $( acpi -b | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed 'N;s/\n/ /g' ) | Vol. $(amixer get Master | tail -1 | awk '{ print $5}' | tr -d '[]') | $(date +"%a, %b %d %T")"
else
xsetroot -name "Vol. $(amixer get Master | tail -1 | awk '{ print $5}' | tr -d '[]') | $(date +"%a, %b %d %T")"
fi
sleep 5s
done &
# automatically change monitor color tempreture
exec xflux -l 49 -g -123 >/dev/null&
wmname LG3D
# set background to .bg.jpg
feh --bg-scale ~/.bg.jpg
exec dwm
Then we write .Xresources to configure Uxterm
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! UXTerm settings !!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UXTerm*background: #000000
UXTerm*foreground: green
UXTerm*customization: -color
UXTerm*toolBar: false
UXTerm*highlightSelection: true
UXTerm*VT100*underLine: on
UXTerm*VT100*colorMode: on
UXTerm*VT100*dynamicColors: on
UXTerm*VT100*colorAttrMode: off
UXTerm*VT100*colorBDMode: on
UXTerm*VT100*colorBD: white
UXTerm*VT100*colorULMode: on
UXTerm*VT100*colorUL: red
UXTerm*VT100*titeInhibit: true
UXTerm.VT100*color0: black
UXTerm.VT100*color1: red3
UXTerm.VT100*color2: green3
UXTerm.VT100*color3: yellow3
UXTerm.VT100*color4: blue2
UXTerm.VT100*color5: magenta3
UXTerm.VT100*color6: cyan3
UXTerm.VT100*color7: gray90
UXTerm.VT100*color8: gray30
UXTerm.VT100*color9: red
UXTerm.VT100*color10: white
UXTerm.VT100*color11: yellow
UXTerm.VT100*color12: blue
UXTerm.VT100*color13: magenta
UXTerm.VT100*color14: cyan
UXTerm.VT100*color15: white
UXTerm.VT100*cursorColor: lime green
UXTerm*faceName: WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono:style=Regular
UXTerm*faceSize: 9
Write .bash_profile to start dwm automatically after login:
#
# ~/.bash_profile
#
[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx
Then, startx and use dmenu to call fcitx-configtool. You can configure fcitx here.
The DWM should be ready. A full list of hot keys:
[Alt]+[p] dmenu for running programs like the x-www-browser
[Shift]+[Alt]+[q] To quite dwm cleanly
[Shift]+[Alt]+[c] To kill the focused window
[Shift]+[Alt]+[Enter] Launch terminal
[Shift]+[Alt]+[1,2,3,...] Move current window to area 1,2,3...
[Alt]+[1,2,3,...] Switch to area 1,2,3...
[Alt]+tab Switch view area
[Alt]+j Switch to next window
[Alt]+k Switch to previous window
[Alt]+b Hide/show status bar
[Alt]+t [Alt]+f [Alt]+m Swith the layout
[Alt]+space Switch the front and background window
[Alt]+[Enter] Switch the window position