Suckless Patches

Personal Library of Patches for Suckless Programs

Here's my collection of custom patches for various Suckless software. If you find bugs with any of these patches please drop me a note. These patches are mostly hosted on the suckless site but also mirrored on my repository here as well for posterity.

dmenu

• Dmenu highlight: Show the individual characters of matched text in a different (highlighted) color.
• Dmenu numbers: Show the number of matched and total number of entries in the top right corner of dmenu.
• Dmenu initialindex: Start with an initial index based on command line flag.

dwm

• Dwm bartabgroups: Show two seperate tab groups (based on nmaster) when tiling split at mfact location.
• Dwm dragmfact: Allows you to use the mouse to resize the mfact (split proportion) like in i3.
• Dwm inplacerotate: Rotate all clients in the master or the stack.
• Dwm transferall: Swap the master and the stack and adjust nmaster accordingly.
• Dwm transfer: Transfer the currently focused client between the master & stack adjusting for nmaster accordingly.
• Dwm multikey: Allows a single keybinding to run different actions based on number of presses.

st

• St externalpipe-signal: Allows utilizing an externalpipe command on the SIGUSR1 signal.
• St invert: Allows inverting the current colorscheme of st via keybinding.

surf

• Surf externalpipe: Pipe current webpage source through external command on keypress. See blog post.
• Surf externalpipe-signal: Allows utilizing an externalpipe command on the SIGUSR1 signal.