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Table of Contents

• Wiki
• Patching / Contributing
• Compatible status bars
• Migrating from X

Wiki

Welcome to dwl wiki! Feel invited to contribute your specific knowledge to this page.

Patching / Contributing

Please see the dwl-patches repository for available patches and for information on creating and submitting patches to extend functionality of dwl.

You can also submit a screenshot of your build by editing screenshot section to give newcomers a notion of dwl's appearance.

Compatible status bars

• bar (patch for dwl)
• dtaobarv2.sh for use with dtao (See "Pinned Messages" on the "customizations" channel of the dwl Discord server for details.)
• dwl-bar dwm-like bar for dwl
• dwl-tags.sh for use with yambar (No longer required yambar has native module for dwl, See below)
• dwlb a modified version of dtao, designed to emulate the status bar of dwm.
• dwlbar.sh for use with waybar (See "Pinned Messages" on the "customizations" channel of the dwl Discord server for details.)
• somebar status bar designed for dwl
• waybar (Requires dwl's IPC patch, see waybar-dwl below for a non-IPC solution)
• waybar-dwl for use with waybar
• waybar-dwl.sh for use with waybar
• yambar Since release 1.9.0 yambar has native support for dwl

Migrating from X

• https://wearewaylandnow.com
• https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway
• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland_Desktop_Landscape
• https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide
• https://github.com/natpen/awesome-wayland

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