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-- Maintaining settings easily --
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speedwm is a personal fork of dwm and will therefore likely have keybinds and other options you may not like.
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Because of this, I recommend that you use the patching system to manage your "custom" settings. speedwm has a patching system. It allows you to create a patch with your changes to most of the headers.
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To create a patch, simply make clean install once and then the docs folder will contain backups of your source code. If you perform changes to any of these four files, run make patch to create patches against the backups in docs and your modified files. Then once you're updating, do make patch_remove, git pull, make patch_install, and make clean install and all your settings will be there.
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The only (obvious) problem with doing this is that eventually the backup files patches are being created against will be pretty old causing patches to no longer apply correctly. If this is the case you will need to create new patches and backups.
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If this seems like more effort than it is worth, maintaining your own fork is always an option. This allows you to perform any options you want yourself. This however doesn't allow you to grab any updates so this should be your second choice.
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Another option, if you use Gentoo, you can add my overlay and install speedwm using the 'savedconfig' USE flag. This USE flag will combine all the headers into one and will be placed in /etc/portage/savedconfig/x11-wm/speedwm-version. To use the settings, simply emerge speedwm again.
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