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by jovial_cavalier 1624 days ago
To package it would defeat the point.

The point is that the software that you're using to manage your computer is simple enough that you can read all of it and understand it -- not that you have to, but you could.

The official method for "extensions" to DWM is in the form of Git patches (https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/). You apply the patch and re-compile. If you had dwm through your package manager, you wouldn't be able to apply any patches, because you would just have the binary.

>Ok so it does have floating then?

What's meant by the quoted text is that you can cycle through all windows on your current workspace, including the floating ones, using only your keyboard. Yes, it does have floating.

edit: I should also say, the real power move for me is that I can just fork the dwm git repo on github, and have my exact desktop configuration available to me 24/7 from anywhere, and I can deploy it on a potato.