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# dwl

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dwl is the wlroots-based fork of the suckless window manager dwm created for Wayland users.

## Installation

dwl can be installed with the dwlAUR or dwl-gitAUR packages. Make any required configuration changes before building and installing, see makepkg.

## Configuration

dwl can be configured in C by editing `config.h` in the source files. You can revert to the defaults by copying the contents of `config.def.h` into `config.h`. Remember to rebuild your package to use your changes.

The official project repository has a number of patches that can add extra functionality to dwl. These patches primarily make changes to the dwl.c file but also make changes to the config.h file or other source files where appropriate. For information on applying patches, see the Patching packages article.

## Usage

Enable/start `seatd.service` from seatd, which will be installed as a dependency of wlroots, otherwise dwl will kick and scream at runtime about how it cannot open a backend and cannot find any seats. dwl can then be started via

    $ dbus-run-session dwl

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