COMPLETE Beginners guide to Suckless (Dwm, Dmenu, ST)

Isn't the dmenu already comes with dwm? I mean I installed dwm with apt install and dmenu was already there.

Excellent tutorial, with 1 issue font size of your terminal too tiny for reading even at full 27" screen, stilled earned you a subscriber.

Awesome vid! I just ran an auto rice script once and then had no clue how to use it lmao. Now I finally know what I'm doing, thanks! :)

to clone a repo directly into specific directory: git clone <repo> <directory>

Beautiful

Thanks brother i learned so much ❤

cool... So I followed your guide to install arch linux and I have no idea in what video, when, where and how you did it with this "tty" thing where you log in in the console or whatever and this file you changed...

Thanks a lot. Very helpful.

Wow, thanks man. I use I3 but wanted to try dwm, but the config/source/programming keeps me out, but this tutorial was spot on the basics and simple af. Love it. 😊

It is a pity that you had OBS record this at a lower resolution (720p from the looks of it), it makes it more difficult to see it. It is cool though that you made this video, I hope that it helps people. I have been using dwm in the last years, I got Chris Titus Tech to use it too and now he loves it and beyond any doubt he gets other people to use it too. dwm is great, it is the one big thing that stops me from moving to Wayland for now.

Great video and thank you for taking the time to record it. I found it educational and efficient!

An awesome tutorial. Thank you so much. I've bookmarked it for future reference since you covered so much. I'm currently on awesomewm and also had a play with openbox but I was always afraid of dwm and all thing suckless tbh. This video shows that it's not nothing to be scared of and more tedious (with all the compiling) than anything else.

I'll grab my old MacBook 2015 and install arch rn and come back to this tutorial 😅

Amazing, thank you so much

Thanks Mashed for teaching how to do it, one of the best tutorials I have ever seen & explaining each & every detail, tools, like git was fabulous.

really great video for someone wanting to whet their appetite using suckless software! nice video!

Hello, I liked your explanation, thank you, but I would like to understand something correct. I liked the look, but what is the purpose of it exactly? What is the difference between it, win kde or gnome? I'm not talking about the difference between window manager and disktop envierment. And I'm thinking about changing, but I don't understand what's better ? and why sorry for my long comment and thanks again

good video but i would argument you are probably too accomodating to newbies. if you don't understand the basics of the terminal or know what package manager your using you probably shouldn't be using dwm in the first place.

Great video man, I learned a lot.
I would recommend that you use git instead of backing up your files before every patch tho , especially since your dwm directory is already a git repository you can do pretty cool stuff that way.
for example you can have different versions of dwm with different patches and switch between them if you use git branches.
But really the main advantage is that you can take snapshots of your dwm config and if anything goes wrong you can just go back to a previous version.

awesome tutorial! really rate the patient explanations of everything that you do, makes this process way more approachable to new people!

Hi, is there anyway to get all of this with some commands or downloading some stuff because its really hard

Hey man thanks for the great video, will you also do a video about dmenu? Would love to see it!

HI @Mashed can you please explain how you get the windows to open in the small panels.
I have all the suckless stuff but mine always open in full size.
Are you ever going to do a video on how to configure Dwm ?

Dont say Emacs like that again😅

I personally just use phyOs/pdwm. Takes the fun of ricing away, but hey, its great.

sudo = Switch User do

nice video bro

mashed uploading a nearly hour long video?? unheard of

how do you have dwm, arch linux and neovim installed at the same time?? ive been trying to find a tutorial for an all in one because im fairly new to ricing and i want to move on to neovim. could you give me any tips? id really appreciate it!

This is a gold mine. Thank you

This is amazing, I am super thankful for you making this video. I've been ripping my roots trying to figure out some things when it came to ricing. Thank you so much!

Hey there. Will you make a video how to make a script to automate installing apps, icons and services, so one doesn't have to do it manually everytime? It's a big pain. 🙂