Dwm
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.
Creating new user account
After the install of alpine you get the root account. We want to use a new user account that is not root but will have sudoers.
# adduser myname
Where myname is the name you want to use
Install sudo so we can add myname to sudoers
# apk add sudo
edit the sudores file by running:
# visudo
Add your user account so you can have sudoers. Make your change below root. The relevant section should look like this:
Contents of /etc/sudoers.tmp
## ## User privilege specification ## root ALL=(ALL) ALL myuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
Switch to the new account
# su myname
Installing Xorg
run the following command
# sudo setup-xorg-base
Configuring the community repositories
We need to do this so we can install firefox. Edit the file with this command
# sudo vi /etc/apk/repositories
uncomment the community line by removing the # save the file and exit. It should look something like this:
Contents of /etc/apk/repositories
Next let the package manager know we made this change
# sudo apk update
Installing dependencies
git make gcc g++ libx11-dev libxft-dev libxinerama-dev ncurses are needed to install suckless from source
dbus-x11 is needed for firefox (when we run firefox in dwm we want it to open in a tile)
the last three adwaita-gtk2-theme adwaita-icon-theme ttf-dejavu are optional but I recommend them so you can have a nicer looking firefox.The command to install the dependencies
# sudo apk add git make gcc g++ libx11-dev libxft-dev libxinerama-dev ncurses dbus-x11 firefox-esr adwaita-gtk2-theme adwaita-icon-theme ttf-dejavu
Installing suckless from source
Go to this directory
# cd /tmp
this is where we will download the source code
# git clone https://git.suckless.org/dwm
Once downloaded go to the dwm directory
# cd dwm
to install run
# sudo make clean install
next leave this directory
# cd ..
so we can install dmenu
# git clone https://git.suckless.org/dmenu
# cd dmenu
# sudo make clean install
next leave this directory
# cd ..
so we can install st
# git clone https://git.suckless.org/st
# cd st
# sudo make clean install
Setting up your profile
Go to your profile
# cd /home/myname
where myname is the name of your profile
create .xinitrc
# vi .xinitrc
add this line
Contents of ~/.xinitrc
save the file and exit vi
next create .profile
# vi .profile
add this line
Contents of ~/.profile
exit to log out of the system or reboot and when you log in dwm will run press alt+p to launch dmenu and start typing firefox firefox will run in tile 9 see here if you want to change that