I wrote my own dwm patch

Hi everyone, my name is Mike. I used to upload videos to YouTube as LinuxDabbler. Although I haven’t uploaded in a long time, i have still been working on some pretty cool stuff and I have one that I hope you guys will like. I wrote my own patch for dwm! its called dwm-autopage. It sets user configurable “page capacity” limits for each tag. page capacity can be different for each layout. So if tile is set to 3 clients, the 4th client will be “autopaged” to the next tag. You can set the behavior to follow autopaged clients to the next tag or not per layout as well. All clients are autopage candidates by default, but if the client is floating, or it is governed by a rule, or has been manually moved to a specific tag… it is not a candidate for autopage. I set it up this way because autopaged clients will automatically collapse to fill gaps in tags left by closing clients and I didn’t want rule governed clients, floating clients, or manually moved clients to be affected by the collapse function.

I have been using this for the last couple of months and have tried it with several different layouts and all of them have worked…except for floating (obviously).

If this sounds interesting to you, and you wouldn’t mind leaving me some feedback, please feel free to check out my patch on my gitab page.

If you are wondering, why I did not link to the suckless website… it’s because i submitted it this morning and (from what I understand) it takes a few days to show new submitted patches.

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Hey Mike. Good to see your post. For all those who don’t know, Mike had one of my favorite YouTube channels a few years ago and it is great to “see” him again.

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Thanks Drew. I appreciate it. I do hope to start back making videos again eventually, but at any rate.. I hope you decide to try out the patch. I have been testing/using it for a few months and would love to hear what you think. It should be on the suckless website soon, but in the mean time, it is on my gitlab.

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