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Restoring the dwm bar
This wiki article describes how to restore the default dwm look to the bar. This should look nearly identical if not exactly the same as dwm-6.4, and can be done in like 2 minutes.
Restoring the dwm modules
To do this, you must first restore the original modules dwm uses. To do this, you can edit bar.h. However, what I recommend you do is copy bar.h to bar.rl.h. The rl headers will be compiled into the binary without replacing the original files and so is nice if you want a configuration without pushing it to the Git repository. Of course, this is optional.
In bar.rl.h, you'll want to remove any modules not present in default dwm such as all the powerline modules and systray. You can choose to keep things like the systray if you want, but this article is about being as close to regular dwm as possible.
If you want, you can copy my barrules array below:
{ -1, 0, bar_align_left, width_tags, draw_tags, click_tags, 0, "tags" },
{ -1, 0, bar_align_left, width_ltsymbol, draw_ltsymbol, click_ltsymbol, 0, "layout" },
{ -1, 0, bar_align_right, width_status_basic, draw_status_basic, click_status_basic, 0, "status" },
{ -1, 0, bar_align_none, width_title_basic, draw_title_basic, click_title_basic, 0, "title" },
As you can see, you'll want to set some of the modules to the basic variant. With that done, go ahead and recompile speedwm using make clean install.
Then follow along with 'Restoring settings'.
Restoring settings
Now that we have the old modules, we'll want to restore the colors, fonts, and other things to the dwm settings. This includes disabling gaps, padding, and any other features dwm does not have.
To do this, edit ~/.config/speedwm/speedwmrc. You can add all the .Xresources values yourself, or you can just copy my list of values below into your own config. I should note though that you may not achieve perfect results if your config already has other options. For best results, start with a blank speedwmrc.
speedwm.fonts.font: monospace 10
speedwm.gaps.enable: 0
speedwm.color.hiddentitle: 0
speedwm.color.selectedtitle: 1
speedwm.color.layout: 0
speedwm.client.map: 0
speedwm.client.hide.border: 0
speedwm.client.hide.unselected.border: 0
speedwm.tiling.resizehints: 1
speedwm.bar.alpha: 0
speedwm.bar.position: 1
speedwm.bar.height: 4
speedwm.bar.paddingih: 0
speedwm.bar.paddingiv: 0
speedwm.bar.paddingoh: 0
speedwm.bar.paddingov: 0
speedwm.bar.hide.emptytags: 0
speedwm.bar.hide.floating: 0
speedwm.bar.hide.layout: 0
speedwm.bar.hide.status: 0
speedwm.bar.hide.title: 0
speedwm.bar.hide.clientindicator: 0
speedwm.bar.titleposition: 0
speedwm.bar.hide.systray: 1
speedwm.bar.hide.sticky: 1
speedwm.bar.hide.icon: 1
speedwm.border.size: 1
speedwm.text.layout1: []=
speedwm.text.layout2: ><>
speedwm.text.layout3: [M]
speedwm.text.tag1.empty: 1
speedwm.text.tag2.empty: 2
speedwm.text.tag3.empty: 3
speedwm.text.tag4.empty: 4
speedwm.text.tag5.empty: 5
speedwm.text.tag6.empty: 6
speedwm.text.tag7.empty: 7
speedwm.text.tag8.empty: 8
speedwm.text.tag9.empty: 9
speedwm.text.tag1.used: 1
speedwm.text.tag2.used: 2
speedwm.text.tag3.used: 3
speedwm.text.tag4.used: 4
speedwm.text.tag5.used: 5
speedwm.text.tag6.used: 6
speedwm.text.tag7.used: 7
speedwm.text.tag8.used: 8
speedwm.text.tag9.used: 9
speedwm.col.tag1: #005577
speedwm.col.tag2: #005577
speedwm.col.tag3: #005577
speedwm.col.tag4: #005577
speedwm.col.tag5: #005577
speedwm.col.tag6: #005577
speedwm.col.tag7: #005577
speedwm.col.tag8: #005577
speedwm.col.tag9: #005577
speedwm.col.titlenorm: #222222
speedwm.col.titlesel: #005577
speedwm.col.titlehid: #222222
speedwm.col.windowbordernorm: #444444
speedwm.col.windowbordersel: #005577
speedwm.col.textnorm: #bbbbbb
speedwm.col.textsel: #eeeeee
speedwm.status.defaultstatus: dwm-6.4
Append this to your speedwmrc and then simply restart using libspeedwm --perform core_wm_restart.
NOTE: If you're using .Xresources, you'll likely notice that colors are not being overridden. You can stop overriding colors, or you can disable .Xresources support in toggle.h, but do note that doing this means you'll have to edit options.h with the values above.
Done
After doing the above, you should have a configuration that looks more or less identical to dwm 6.4. If you want to take it a step further, you can disable things like tag previews, window icons and task switcher through toggle.h if resources is your concern.