Minutes 2025-12-04

1. DWM by Lucas!
   1. What is a Window Manager?
      1. Just determines where windows go on your desktop
      2. Many are workspace-based
      3. However, DWM is tag-based
   2. Features of DWM
      1. Entirely configured through source code
      2. Tag system subverts more traditional workspace workflow
         1. Can tag one window with multiple tags, allows one window to appear on multiple workspaces
   3. Why use DWM?
      1. Streamlined, no bloat
      2. Keyboard-centric
      3. Much greater customization than most Desktop Environments
   4. How do you install it?
      1. Download from dwm.suckless.org
         1. Recommend making your own git repo for dwm to make customization easier
      2. Install X11 dependencies
   5. Configuring DWM
      1. "Infamous" dwm.c file
      2. Basic configurations possible by editing config.h
         1. Allows for some basic customization without needing to know C
   6. Patching DWM
      1. dwm.suckless.org/patches/ has some
      2. Recommend patching in separate git branch
      3. Diff files work based on line numbers, the more patches you add the higher likelihood they may start to fail or break functionality
   7. What I use
      1. taglabels
      2. autostart
         1. autostarts scripts right after dwm starts
      3. statuscmd
      4. uselessgap
      5. dwmblocks
         1. get nice infobar with battery percentage, network connectivity, etc
   8. Live demo!
      1. Lucas's setup
      2. config.h
         1. keybindings
            1. Shortcuts for common scripts
         2. colorscheme
      3. Live recompiling of font and background change
2. LUG server status update!
   1. Mirrors
      1. New homepage ideas!
      2. Upgraded capacity from ~19TB to ~70TB
   2. Server news
      1. Server re-arranging
      2. Zero-downtime Mirrors swap
         1. Ran mirrors midair while being held
      3. Perpendicular
         1. We're out of rack space, but need one final 2U server
         2. ....server is being ""stored"" behind the rack
         3. just so happens to also have a power and ethernet cable running to it
         4. and has some blinky lights that flash on and off
   3. Mirrors was much more popular when we mirrored CentOS
      1. Still is, just now all our packages return 404's since the upstream removed everything