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Rounded corners
speedwm versions before 1.9 had built in rounded corner support done using standard X11 libraries. This worked relatively well, but only for clients, not the bar. In 1.9 however, this was removed. The removal was done because if you like rounded corners, chances are you already have a compositor like picom installed on your system anyway.
picom does rounded corners for any program, and that includes the speedwm bar, and it does it better than speedwm did, so it made no sense to keep it around in speedwm causing possible future bugs.
Rounded corners using picom
To enable rounded corners in speedwm, install picom.
For Gentoo: emerge --ask picom
For Arch: pacman -S picom
Once picom is installed, you can add picom & to ~/.config/speedwm/autostart.sh which will allow it to automatically run on speedwm startup. Alternatively, add it to another file which is autostarted, such as ~/.xinitrc.
picom has a configuration file in ~/.config/picom/picom.conf. Here you can do a bunch of cool things, but importantly you can enable rounded corners. A good start would be to add the following to the file:
corner-radius = 10.0;
rounded-corners-exclude = [
"class_g = 'Dunst'",
];
round-borders = 10;
round-borders-exclude = [
#"class_g = 'Chromium'",
];
You can adjust round-borders and corner-radius depending on how sharp you want the window borders. Similar to speedwm rules, you can exclude certain clients based on class. There are a few examples here by default. Settings should apply immediately when the file is saved which is very convenient. In case it doesn't though, restart picom.
Excluding the speedwm bar
Some users may not want to round the bar, specifically if you're not using any barpadding. In that case, simply add a rule like this:
rounded-corners-exclude = [
"class_g = 'speedwm'",
];
to your picom.conf configuration file.
speedwm configuration
It may be a good idea to disable window borders in the speedwm configuration. This isn't required of course, but window borders can look a bit out of place. Otherwise, you may want to consider increasing the size. Add speedwm.border.size: 0 to ~/.config/speedwm/speedwmrc to disable the window border for clients in speedwm.
It also does not make much sense to use rounded corners without padding, so I set outer horizontal and outer vertical padding to 5 like so:
speedwm.bar.paddingoh: 5
speedwm.bar.paddingov: 5
I also want a smaller bar, but instead of decreasing the font size, I choose to decrease bar height by 2 like so:
speedwm.bar.height: -2
Gaps are set to 10 by default, but because 10 pixels of padding is too much, I choose to decrease inner and outer gaps like this:
speedwm.gaps.sizeih: 5
speedwm.gaps.sizeiv: 5
speedwm.gaps.sizeoh: 5
speedwm.gaps.sizeov: 5
My configuration looks like this. Feel free to copy it to your own speedwmrc.
speedwm.border.size: 0
speedwm.bar.paddingoh: 5
speedwm.bar.paddingov: 5
speedwm.bar.height: -2
speedwm.gaps.sizeih: 5
speedwm.gaps.sizeiv: 5
speedwm.gaps.sizeoh: 5
speedwm.gaps.sizeov: 5