I want to propose a patch which I call removetitle. It removes the title
of the currently selected window from the statusbar. This can have the
following benefits:


- Declutter the statusbar. Useful for people who think that displaying
  the title has no value and is rather distracting.
- Background-color of the statusbar doesn't change in the middle.
  Good for people who think that a continues background-color is more
  aesthetic and less distracting.
- Simpler code.

Your dwm bar is elegant. I've tried to use AwesomeFont as replacements
to tags indices but was unable to get a good looking style. I remember I
was stuck at centering the glyphs since they are different in size. I
also like much your top tag indicator (the small white bar). Would you
mind sharing your modifications to get this result?

Cheers,


I am using the awesome-font icons https://origin.fontawesome.com/cheatsheet 
This means I simply copy and paste them in my config.h. However, additionally 
you also need to install an appropriate font on your system. I am using the 
Ubuntu-Mono Nerd Font. If you are using arch you can install it from the AUR. 
The package-name is nerd-fonts-ubuntu-mono. But you may want to try other fonts 
from the nerd-fonts collection https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts. Of 
course you need also to define the font in your dwm-config.h as UbuntuMono Nerd 
Font. I also had similar issues at the beginning. The glyphs were simply to 
small. I was able to fix it with the Ubuntu Font.



The white tag-indicator can be patched with 
https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/activetagindicatorbar/. However, the patch for 
dwm-6.1 will fail on 6.2. You will need to manually patch it. But this 
shouldn't be hard. You may have noticed that yesterday I wrote another mail to 
hackersATsuckless.org where I posted a fixed version of exactly this patch.



I also have another patch for the statusbar which allows to define the vertical 
size of the bar and horizontal gaps between the tag-icons 
https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/statuspadding/. Additionally, I also removed 
the window-title in the statusbar. Oh and it has transparency.



You can find my configuration in my github-repository 
https://github.com/astier/dwm and also the fixed version of the tag-patch and 
also all the other patches which I use.

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