speedwm-personal/docs/dependencies.md

5. Dependencies

Required

These are absolutely necessary, speedwm will NOT compile without them

• libxft
  • Used for rendering text
• pango
  • Used to markup text
• libXinerama
  • Used for multi-monitor support.
  • Can be disabled through editing toggle.mk if you're not interested in multiple monitors.
• imlib2
  • Used for tag previews, window icons.
  • Can be disabled through editing toggle.mk and toggle.h if you don't want these features.
• yajl
  • Used to interact with speedwm through a sock.
  • Required for the IPC patch. If the IPC patch is disabled through toggle.mk and toggle.h, you do not need this.
• tcc
  • Very minimal C compiler that speedwm uses to greatly speed up compile times. If you do not want this dependency, edit host.mk and set CC to 'cc' (or what C99 compiler you prefer).

Features

These are necessary for certain features and keybinds. If you want to use an alternative, change it in options.h and/or keybinds.h and mouse.h.

• spmenu
  • As of speedwm 1.9, speedwm now expects spmenu (fork of dmenu) to be on the system instead of dmenu. While you can revert this change I cannot provide support due to missing arguments.
• xrdb
  • xrdb is used for external speedwm configuration (ie. after compiling). It is not mandatory if you don't need this.

Software

This build of speedwm comes with keybinds for software. You can add, change and remove keybinds by editing keybinds.h and mouse.h and running make clean install.

• speedwm-extras
  • Metapackage containing extra scripts that speedwm makes use of. (https://codeberg.org/speedie/speedwm-extras)
• libspeedwm
  • Dependency for speedwm-extras allowing you to perform actions externally.
• st - Default terminal
• Chromium - Default web browser

And everything under Features.