Hello, dear Fedora Community! I just want to ask you about DWM:
How can I download DWM? I have read the article about it (Let's try dwm — dynamic window manager - Fedora Magazine), but I can not to find the DWM in DNF.
You can find it in the user maintained Copr repositories:
Why is it not supported by official repository?
I think the main reason is that DWM is a very minimal windowmanager, it doesn’t even have a userland config file. To change it’s config you have to edit the C header file and recompile the runtime. So for that reason an official package wouldn’t work well, because you wouldn’t be able to recompile it easily.
More information: dwm - dynamic window manager | suckless.org software that sucks less
A few other tiling window managers like i3 are slightly less minimal and do offer userland configuration, so they will be more easily available in the official repositories.
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I also found this about the packages mentioned in the article you linked to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/sszdve/dwm_and_dwmuser_no_longer_in_repo/
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